Re: git: 225639e7db68 - main - vt: Disable bell by default

> On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:03:05 -0700
> Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:02:14AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > S> > laptops. If somebody is using vt(4) instead of X on a laptop, then  
> > S> 
> > S> This change disable bell in X11 too.
> > S> This is completly disable speaker bell.  
> > 
> > Are you sure? I haven't yet upgraded my desktop to this point, so can't test.
> > How is that possible that vt(4) affects X11?
> > 
> 
> He could be right.  I don't use vt, but syscons also has a bell setting:
> sysctl -d hw.syscons.bell hw.syscons.bell: enable bell
> 
> With this set to 1 a ^G in xterm results in a beep.  After setting the
> sysctl to 0 a ^G in xterm produces no sound at all.

I also suspect that this kills "visual bell" which is a bright
flash of the terminal.

We need to STOP these "I dont like the 20 year old defaults,
so I am going to change them to what I like and use"  It is NOT
forward progress on making a better system, it is tilting at
defaults, very long established defaults, that should probably
just be left alone.

I dont like a lot of the defaults on a lot of OS's, I tweak them
to my needs.  FreeBSD keeps tweaking things such that I have to
tweak my tweaks to keep things as I see fit.  THAT IS A POLA VIOLATION!

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org