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DisablingBells/iTerm

< DisablingBells

This will silence the terminal bell in iTerm, and won't replace it with a visual bell. It will still be silenced when connected to remote machines.

  1. Quit iTerm
  2. Change the bell setting in Property List Editor
    1. Open ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.iTerm.plist in Apple's Property List Editor [1] by navigating to it and double-clicking it in Finder
    2. Expand Root
    3. Expand Terminals
    4. Expand Default
    5. Click "No" to the right of "Silence Terminal Bell" and change it to "Yes".[2]
    6. File > Save (Command-S)
    7. Property List Editor > Quit Property List Editor (Command-Q)
  3. Open iTerm. The bell should be silenced!

Notes

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  1. ↑ you need to have XCode installed to get the Property List Editor
  2. ↑ in version 0.9.6.20090209 the value "Silence Terminal Bell" is gone from the conf file. You need to manually add it as boolean and set it to "true"
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