Please modify /etc/inputrc so that the bell is set to visual (or off). It is seriously annoying. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot LiveCD. 2. In a shell, press tab to complete. 3. Be annoyed at beep, flip out and kill oneself. Actual Results: Loud beep, revealing my activity late at night. Expected Results: Visual flash, or nothing.
Uh, no. We ship default files unless where necessary to do otherwise. If you don't like it defaulting to enabled, take it up with the baselayout maintainers.
Jason, actually, take this to the gentoo-releng mailing list. There is a thread over there asking for feature requests for 2008.0's release. If it seems like something that people want changed, we'll definitely consider it for the release. Otherwise, we'll close this bug again.
Andrew is correct about getting it changed in the stages, however. It'll need to be done by the baselayout maintainers. If it seems like something people want, I'll push this bug over to them to decide if they want to change it in the package, but I have no problem with it, myself. The first thing I do on most boots of a LiveCD is to "rmmod pcspkr", so I feel your pain. ;]
the choices are: - no bell for livecd only - no bell for everyone seems release would prefer to not make custom livecd tweaks this proposed behavior change would have to be posted to gentoo mailing lists i personally hate the system bell, but i just disconnect the speaker in my pc and dont compile the driver into the kernel for it
I'm fine with it being any of: - Change release media, leave in-tree alone - Change release media, change in-tree - Leave release media, leave in-tree alone I would say that I'm also OK with "leave release media, change in-tree" but that's the same end result as changing both, anyway. Like I said, I think discussion on it would be good, as I tend to think that most people who hate the PC speaker don't compile in support on their own machines and simply "rmmod pcspkr" on the release media. I know that I do.
Personally, I never found the beep annoying on tab completion and such. While I'd find the missing beep slightly disconcerting, I'm certainly not going to fight against its removal :P
Well, it wouldn't be missing. It would be visual. Were the request to disable it entirely, I'd be less apt to go for it. I had considered just adding pcspkr to the hotplug blacklist, but that doesn't cause the system bell to switch to a visual bell automatically.
Well if you are voting I like the beep as it isn't very loud. (just a user though)
