How do I turn the beep slash bell off in cygwin?

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The system beep/bell happens frequently (ie, when I type a few letters then type tab to autocomplete when there are a few options).

How can I turn this off?

I googled it and tried:

set bell-style none (the command went through but nothing changed)

and

setterm -blength 0 (got a bash command not found)

Thanks!

cygwin bash
7 Answers

An alternative solution that doesn't seem to be mentioned here is:

  1. Right click on the header of the Cygwin window and chose Options...:

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  1. In the options menu, under the Terminal tab, choose "no beep":

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This should take effect immediately without having to restart Cygwin.

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Path to '.inputrc: 

'C:\cygwin64\home\<username>\.inputrc
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