If I want to disable beep sounds from stuff like bash
, I add this line to "/etc/inputrc":
set bell-style none
Sadly, this doesn't work for some other events like GDM start-up and shut down. I thought that adding this line to "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf" would help:
blacklist pcspkr
That makes me wonder and doubt where the sound actually comes from.
Best Answer
Solution for GNOME 2 (Debian 6):
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.
Solution for GNOME 3 (Debian 7):
Edit
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings
such that you have this entry: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.