tweaking new dell laptop: "Fn" keys and system beep

matt.price at utoronto.ca matt.price at utoronto.ca
Wed Jun 14 15:39:04 UTC 2006


Quoting Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>:

> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:03:02 -0400
> matt.price at utoronto.ca wrote:
> 
> > Quoting matt.price at utoronto.ca:
> > 
> > forgot to describethe second issue mentioned in the subject line:  I can't
> turn
> > off the system beep!  so when I'm working at the ocmmand line, there are
> > horrible loud beeps every time I press tab, or backspace too far...  I'm
> really
> > a terrible nuisance!  can anyone tell me how to do that?
> > 
> 
> In an X terminal
> 
> xset b off
> 


thanks peter that's great!  just what I needed...

matt

> In a tty
> 
> setterm -blength 0
> 
> Peter
> 
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