Feature changed by: Xylly Wyt (xyllywyt) Feature #311089, revision 8 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. #6: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2015-08-14 00:25:33) It is not worth the trouble for the distro to sway from the default, also because they easily revert (which can be a good thing as well as a curse), such as through /usr/bin/reset for vc0. Anyone thinking of editing .inputrc can just pull the thing from the mainboard - I can assure you that you won't miss it. And for laptops, well, that has been tunable from keyboard or even software for *well over 15 years*, so just disable it in the mixer. + #7: Xylly Wyt (xyllywyt) (2018-04-21 01:43:55) + +1. It is so loud and annoying. How are we to vote. There is nothing + under the box marked 'Voting' on this page (Chrome and FF) + X -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311089