Beeps on tab

[Tero Karvinen]

Gnome-terminal beeps on tab. On an office full of Ubuntus, continous beeping is annoying.

Beeping can be turned off from Edit:Current Profile:General:Terminal Bell. However, tab completition is one of the most used features of bash shell. There is absolutely no point in beeping all the time. Even though this is "just" an interface issue, it is something almost every user wants to change right away.

Suggestion: change the default to no terminal bell.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded the issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335949

[Thomas Folz-Donahue (eigenlambda)]

I'm willing to mark this confirmed because it was pushed upstream, but I really think this bug belongs to a different package- probably bash, or alternatively whatever controls desktop sounds.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Upstream has the same opinion:

 Comment #5 from Behdad Esfahbod (developer, points: 21)
2006-03-27 00:38 UTC [reply]

Adding this to ~/.inputrc or /etc/inputrc works for example:

     # use a visible bell if one is available
     set bell-style visible

Something not quite irrelevant: I had a quite embarrasing moment when I booted
the GNOME 2.14 when I was in the office and its LONG login sound went as loud
as my speakers could. Well, I believe a default install should not make any
sound, and that should be set up through GNOME sound settings. Seeking a
solution in gnome-terminal's defaults doesn't look like optimal to me.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

reassigning to readline5

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 38848.

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

Please just change the default of Gnome Terminal to no terminal bell. This should be a really low hanging fruit.

Hardy Beta still has this problem. Details of test setup http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/ubuntu_hardy_8.04.html#don_t_beep_at_me

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

To come from the other side, please DO NOT disable the bell by default. It beeping can be a sign that something is going wrong, and I'd hate to lose that feedback.

[kuser (nuca-nunca)]

during testing kubuntu jaunty alpha 6, this deeply irritating sound started to happen after some upgrade.
i think it comes from gnome, because since that one upgradee, all possible gnome-apps make all possible funny sounds. «bum» and «pof» are not irritating but »BEEP« on tab throws me out of my socks.
might cause heart attacks...

[Jens Askengren (jens-askengren)]

If the default behaviour of readline can't be changed, please instead add sane defaults to /usr/share/readline/inputrc provided by the package readline-common.

See also bug #345414

[Johan Boule (johan-boule)]

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2006-08-02:
> Something not quite irrelevant: I had a quite embarrasing moment when I booted
> the GNOME 2.14 when I was in the office and its LONG login sound went as loud
> as my speakers could.

Let's not exagerate the matter here.. when you think about what an embarrasing sound might be, it's not beeps that come to mind.