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Fixing the jarring terminal bell

Assuming Cinnamon on Debian Sid, the terminal bell by default is a coarse, jarring sound that startles you whenever it goes off. This sound can be tested with echo -ne 'x07'. By default, Cinnamon's terminal bell is disabled, and it's the system bell you hear. Turning on Cinnamon's bell can be done as such:

  1. Open dconf-editor
  2. Navigate to org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences
  3. Make sure that audible-bell is enabled
  4. Make sure that bell-sound is set to something that sounds pleasant (check /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga)

At this point, the pleasant sound plays at the same time as the jarring one, the latter completely drowning out the former. Try sudo modprobe -r pcspkr to disable the jarring system sound. If that fixed it, you can make this change permanent by adding a file /etc/modprobe.d/nobeep.conf, containing the following:

# Do not load the 'pcspkr' module on boot.
blacklist pcspkr
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