Re: git: 225639e7db68 - main - vt: Disable bell by default

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:03:05 -0700
Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:02:14AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> S> > laptops. If somebody is using vt(4) instead of X on a laptop, then  
> S> 
> S> This change disable bell in X11 too.
> S> This is completly disable speaker bell.  
> 
> Are you sure? I haven't yet upgraded my desktop to this point, so can't test.
> How is that possible that vt(4) affects X11?
> 

He could be right.  I don't use vt, but syscons also has a bell setting:
sysctl -d hw.syscons.bell hw.syscons.bell: enable bell

With this set to 1 a ^G in xterm results in a beep.  After setting the
sysctl to 0 a ^G in xterm produces no sound at all.

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Gary Jennejohn