Re: keyboard bell

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Dan Mueth (d-mueth uchicago edu) wrote at 15:30 on 03/11/00:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Chris Murray wrote:
> 
> > I am a new Linux user and have a suggestion-- I hope this is the proper
> > forum.  I recently installed RedHat 7.  I am very impressed with Linux
> > and with Gnome.  I had a very frustrating experience, however, in trying
> > to disable the keyboard bell.
> > 
> > I was annoyed with the beep that happened every time I used tab
> > completion.  I looked for a way to disable it, to no avail.  I searched
> > the web for things like "linux beep", "pc speaker off", etc.  I read the
> > visual-bell-HOWTO, which did not help.  (The HOWTO suggests a
> > speakerectomy, but I did not want to resort to that.)  Frustrated, I
> > searched Usenet, the RedHat site, and linux.org documentation.  By this
> > time I was on a mission.  I finally found the page at
> > http://www.docs.cs.huji.ac.il/RedHat-6.1-guides/rhgsg/gccmm.htm , which
> > shows the Gnome settings I needed.  But my Gnome Control Center did not
> > have Keyboard Bell setting!  I searched the all through the Gnome
> > documentation.  FINALLY, I found what I was looking for.  The keyboard
> > bell settings had been moved to Peripherals!  I easily turned the bell
> > off.
> > 
> > In my opinion, the PC speaker settings more properly belong under
> > multimedia.  But if something is going to be changed like that, please
> > make a note in the documentation!
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I'm sorry to hear how much trouble this seemingly simple problem caused
> you.  Indeed, finding the answer to simple questions with Linux is often
> anything but simple.  It is the goal of GNOME to make doing things (and
> learning how to do them) like setting the keyboard bell very easy.  I
> think we have made a lot of progress here, but we clearly have a long way
> to go.

Okay - I have a question...How do I disable the "linux beep" on the _console_
(before even starting GNOME) ;)
 
> As for finding the right document and the right place in that document, we
> need several things:
> 
> 1) a contents list - This is a list of the documents on your system sorted
> by topic. This should make it much easier to find documents on a
> particular topic.  We are aiming to have this done for GNOME 1.4 which
> isn't too far off.
> 
> 2) document indexes - This is what you always find in the back of books.  
> It is a list of concepts and links to where the topic is discussed in the
> manual.  We are aiming to have this in GNOME 2.0.
> 
> 3) searching - There are a handful of ways you can search.  You can search
> on metadata (eg. document subject or keywords), you can search on title,
> you can search the body of a document.  As with the indexes, we do not
> currently have searching, but we are planning to have it in GNOME 2.0.
> 
> These features, along with the ever growing body of GNOME documentation,
> should help to make the "simple" problems as simple as they seem.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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