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How do I disable the beep/bell sound that is emitted in Secure Shell in Chrome OS? When certain commands fail, such as pressing backspace on an empty command line or on a failing tab autocompletion, I hear a very loud and annoying sound. It seems like a silly question, but I use the Secure Shell continuously and the sounds happen a lot.
I'm talking about the Secure Shell here that can be accessed when Chrome OS is in developer mode by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and then typing 'shell'.
For beeps generated in your shell (which seem to be the most annoying ones), add this to "~/.inputrc":
set bell-style none
Note that this is not terminal- but host-specific. That means that when you log in to another computer via ssh where this isn't set, the beep is back. (I tested on Fedora)
I tried one more thing... System -> Preferences -> Sound. This brings up the Volume Control application:
From there I click on Preferences which brings up another window. I then click on Beep, and that mutes window thus:
I then proceed to clicking on the speaker icon on PCM column, after which I become happy.
Edit /etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings such that you have this entry:
# Disabling sound in the greeter
[org.gnome.desktop.sound]
event-sounds=false
You'll probably just have to uncomment the 2 lines. Note that I can't find a way to do something like this as normal user. I guess GNOME 3 killed some configurability.
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I know this is an old question but I found this via google today and I thought I'd post an updated answer for anyone else stumbling into this page.
If you'd rather not write JavaScript, There is now a Profile Settings page that can be reached via ctrl+shift+p.
To remove the bell you can delete the value in the audible-bell-sound field.