turning off terminal bell

jonfa · 12-11-2007, 09:16 AM

Hi all,

How can I disable the terminal bell on my Solaris 10 machine? I am not running X so xset won't work. Any ideas? Thanks.

osor · 12-11-2007, 04:30 PM

stty should work.

jonfa · 12-12-2007, 07:54 AM

I tried

$stty -imaxbel

but that doesn't work. Any other options I could try? Thanks.

jlliagre · 12-12-2007, 10:22 AM

Under what contexts do you want the bell not to ring ?
What is your H/W ?

jonfa · 12-12-2007, 01:21 PM

I am using vi and vi will complain a lot since I am trying to understand all the commands. I did manage to turn it off for vi by doing the following:

$echo $TERM
-this reports sun-color
$infocmp
-this dispalys bel=^G
$infocmp > terminfo-sun
- remove bel=^G from terminfo-sun
$tic terminfo-sun

Link

jlliagre · 12-12-2007, 02:26 PM

Yes, that the way to avoid it for most applications.

bigearsbilly · 12-14-2007, 08:05 AM

in X windows

xset -b