Linux Audio – How to Disable the Beep Sound System-Wide

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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:

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From there I click on Preferences which brings up another window. I then click on Beep, and that mutes window thus:

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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:

# 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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