Stephen Croll wrote:
... This solution works, but appears to only apply to the currently running gnome session. It doesn't work for virtual terminals nor for KDE sessions.
I haven't tried this for KDE, but I expect it will work for all bash sessions, no matter where they run:
head -2 /etc/inputrc # do not bell on tab-completion #set bell-style none
Just uncomment the second line.
That's system-wide. For one user, you can just login as the user and do
$ cat >>.inputrc set bell-style none (C-d)
I hear ya with wanting to 'terminate with extreme prejudice', but I think it's not necessarily wise to completely kill the functionality. Sometimes an audible alert can be useful.
<Joe