Disable beep in WSL terminal on Windows 10 [closed]

How to disable visual and audio bell/beep in WSL on Windows 10?

Solution 1:

1. To disable the beep in bash you need to uncomment (or add if not already there) the line set bell-style none in your /etc/inputrc file.

   Note: Since it is a protected file you need to be a privileged user to edit it (i.e. launch your text editor with something like sudo <editor> /etc/inputrc).

2. To disable the beep and the visual bell also in vim you need to add the following to your ~/.vimrc file:

   set visualbell
   set t_vb=
   

3. To disable the beep also in less (i.e. also in man pages and when using "git diff") you need to add export LESS="$LESS -R -Q" in your ~/.profile file.

Solution 2:

Since the only noise terminals tend to make is the bell and if you want it off everywhere, the very simplest way to do it for bash on Windows:

1. Mash backspace a bunch at the prompt
2. Right click sound icon and choose Open Volume Mixer
3. Lower volume on Console Window Host to zero

Solution 3:

Uncommenting set bell-style none in /etc/inputrc and creating a .bash_profile with setterm -blength 0 didn't stop vim from beeping.

What worked for me was creating a .vimrc file in my home directory with set visualbell.

Source: https://linuxconfig.org/turn-off-beep-bell-on-linux-terminal

Solution 4:

You need add following lines to bash and vim config,

1) Turn off bell for bash

vi ~/.inputrc
set bell-style none

2) Turn off bell for vi

vi ~/.vimrc
set visualbell
set t_vb=

Setting the visual bell turns off the audio bell and clearing the visual bell length deactivates flashing.