quick question about turning the annoying beep off in X

[twig les]

--- Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Nov 13), twig les said:
> > Hey all, in my /etc/csh.cshrc I have
> > 
> > xset b off
> > 
> > which does what I want, which is to tell X to shut up
> without me
> > having to type the command in every X session.  But it seems
> clumsy
> > as it puts up an error "xset: unable to open display """
> when I ssh
> > in.  I fully understand that this *should* be an error
> because
> > csh.cshrc is a shell init file, I just tried this in
> .xinitrc and it
> > didn't work.  Putting it in
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/startx had predictably bad results.
> > 
> > So anyone know the correct file for this command?
> 
> I'm pretty sure .xinitrc is the one you want.  Make sure you
> run the
> command before any session managers etc.  I just tested it and
> it works
> for me.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com


Magic!  I never bothered to check if putting the command
*before* "wmaker" in ~/.xinitrc would make a difference.  Thnx.




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