Solved Silencing beeping internal computer speaker

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Preetpal

Is there a way to disable the internal computer speaker (Desktop PC) from beeping during normal use? I am using XFCE4 and when I use the right arrow keys once I've reached the rightmost location in certain applications, it makes the computer's internal speaker beep (which is annoying). I would prefer to disable the internal computer speaker usage altogether in FreeBSD.
 
I managed to discover how to do this with the command sysctl -a | grep bell. It yielded two relevant settings.
  • kern.vt.enable_bell: 1
  • hw.syscons.bell: 1
I changed these settings as illustrated by the following terminal session:

Code: 
# sysctl kern.vt.enable_bell=0
kern.vt.enable_bell: 1 -> 0
# sysctl hw.syscons.bell=0
hw.syscons.bell: 1 -> 0
#

This stopped the beeping.
 
To make the changes persistent, I added the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf.

YAML: 
# Disable annoying internal computer speaker beeping
kern.vt.enable_bell=0
hw.syscons.bell=0
 
Preetpal said:
I managed to discover how to do this with the command sysctl -a | grep bell. It yielded two relevant settings.
  • kern.vt.enable_bell: 1
  • hw.syscons.bell: 1
I changed these settings as illustrated by the following terminal session:

Code: 
# sysctl kern.vt.enable_bell=0
kern.vt.enable_bell: 1 -> 0
# sysctl hw.syscons.bell=0
hw.syscons.bell: 1 -> 0
#

This stopped the beeping.
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It was annoyng me very much for months. Thank you!
 
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