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I'm using urxvt on Fedora 30, and when I press ^G, or when I do some other actions, the terminal beeps. How can I disable the beep?

I skimmed through the manpage and found that you can start urxvt with urxvt -vb and there will be no bell sound; but it'll issue a visual bell instead (i.e. the terminal blinks), and I don't want that either.

In GNOME Terminal there is an option to disable the bell, but I can't find the equivalent way to do that in urxvt. I've looked up online and tried xset b off, I get no errors but the bell is still audible. I've also tried setterm -blength 0, but it fails with this error: setterm: terminal rxvt-unicode does not support --blength.

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I was able to disable the bell on GNOME with the command: 

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences audible-bell false

In general, the PC speaker page from the ArchWiki appears to have a number of commands that can be used to disable PC beeps.

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