How do I completely disable bell in screen (both visual and audio)

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L Lawliet picture L Lawliet · May 22, 2014 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

In screen, is there a way to completely disable bell ?

I know you can switch to audio bell instead of the visual one and have already done that and have also specified no bell in putty so I don't hear anything but whenever there is a bell in one window, I see an annoying popup on the other windows say "bell in window 1" and so on.

Any idea on how to get rid of it ?

Answer

user445786 picture user445786 · Jun 4, 2014

To permanently disable the visual bell, you need to add the following command to your .screenrc file:

  vbell off

I haven't tested it, but adding the additional line to your .screenrc file should disable the message bell:

  bell_msg ""

To disable it in a session (temporarily, not permanently), issue the following command from the session:

  CTRL+A, CTRL+G

See the man page for screen (section 'CUSTOMIZATION') for more information.

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