Visual Bell mini-Howto

Alessandro Rubini

rubini@linux.it

Revision History
Revision 2.2	11 November 1997	Revised by: ar

Revision 2.2	9 November 1999	Revised by: dlr
converted from LinuxDoc to DocBook

This document explains how to use termcap to configure a visual bell on one's system and describes how to disable audible bells on demand.

Table of Contents
1. Copyright and Licensing Information
2. Introduction
3. Speakerectomy
4. Per-console Beep Configuration
5. Basic Concepts About Termcap and Terminfo
6. Defining a Visible Bell
7. Disabling the Audible Bell on the Text Console
8. Telling Applications to Avoid Beeping
9. The Dark Side of the Problem

1. Copyright and Licensing Information

Copyright © 1997 Alessandro Rubini. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v0.4 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).

Note that neither of the OPL "Options" apply to this document. This document may be freely reformatted, freely distributed, and freely modified and translated according to the terms presented in the Open Publication License.

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