HowTo: Turn off (mute) system beep

For anyone with a laptop who works in a library or other quiet area, system beeps every time you press the backspace key one too many times, or just using emacs, can be quite disturbing.

To shut them off: open an xterm or terminal, and enter the two lines Code:

xset b off xset b 0 0 0

Hope this helps.

There's also another way:

(as root) Code:

rmmod pcspkr

This removes the (annoying) pc-speaker driver. To load it back, just type:

(as root) Code:

modprobe pcspkr