Bug 53217

Summary:	silent terminal bell good for clueless laptop users
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joshua Jensen <joshua>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.3	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Joshua Jensen 2001-09-05 05:56:59 UTC

It hit me while I was sitting on the airplane (after someone asked me to "turn 
off the beep")... wouldn't a "setterm -bfreq 0" in /etc/bashrc (or maybe 
/etc/profile.d/somefile) be nice for "laptop" class installs?  Maybe this is a bad 
idea, but clueless users that do automatic laptop installs probably don't have 
any idea on how to do this, and a silent default is much preferible for these 
users how generally use the laptop class of installation.

Just an idea...

Joshua

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-08-30 00:55:38 UTC

The installer doesn't support changing post-install settings based on install
classes, but adding the line (commented out) to /etc/skel/.bashrc so people can
find out easier how to do it is a good idea...
Done that in 2.05b-6.