Disabling terminal bell from xinitrc ?

H

hippo

Hello.
I have a minor (but annoying) issue under X on FreeBS 8.1 (only!). Wherever I put "xset -b" in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (the one I start X from), it is ignored. I don't use xset anywhere else after that point (like in profile or login files). The following has no effect on terminal bell - snipp of (a very long) /etc/x11/xinit/xinitrc:

Code: 
case $WM in
.....
esac
[color="DarkRed"]xset -b[/color]
exec $WM

I have to execute it manually after X start. I wonder why/who/where resets the bell default or why this command is ignored in xinitrc. I didn't remember having that problem before (I might have forgottent though). I use this method (among others) to start X under several different OS, other BSDs and different Linux, disabling the bell in xinitrc when necessary (OpenBSD does that in /etc/wsconsctl.conf) and it seems that I'm having that issue under FreeBSD 8.1 only.

I can live with that but would like to understand ... and so fix it.
Any idea?
 
Thanks a lot! That's exactly what I was looking for. I actually did [cmd=]sysctl -a | grep beep[/cmd] should have grepped 'bell' instead.
As for disabling it on the running system, I think [cmd=]/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -b off[/cmd] does the job too. I found it back on a "shutup" script I made for that purpose.
 
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