Feature changed by: Felix Miata (mrmazda) Feature #311089, revision 6 Title: Disable system bell by default if sound card is installed openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pieter De Decker (pdedecker) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One of the first things I do after installing openSUSE is disabling the system bell by adding this to ~/.inputrc: set bell-style none Its volume is needlessly high. The bell scares the hell outta me whenever it creeps up because I backspaced too much on the command line. My suggestion: disable the system bell by default, unless no sound card is installed. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It's a simple fix for something that has been bugging me forever. Discussion: #1: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) (2011-01-19 22:57:33) Completely agree. Too many times I have used my openSUSE laptop at college or other public places and during the middle of a class my computer would spew forth a series of extremely loud beeps. Useless and extremely annoying. #2: Daniel Lee (erget) (2011-01-23 13:51:23) Yes, I have the same problem and would love this fix! #3: Georg Stillfried (theschorsch) (2015-01-04 11:27:36) Agree. In my case, it has been annoying when using TightVNC to connect to my workplace's computer at night with all sound turned off and suddenly loud beeps coming out of the PC speaker because I hit backspace once too much in MATLAB. #4: hisam hisam (xikyu46) (2015-06-27 06:33:02) i have same problem. Sometime when i using headset/earphone it make me shocked because the sound is loud + #5: Felix Miata (mrmazda) (2015-06-27 06:57:56) + Just because the motherboard has a sound chip doesn't mean speakers are + connected, or turned on, or wanted. Practically all motherboards have + sound chips any more. When something bad happens, sound is good. + Otherwise, I want my puter to be quiet. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311089