Many many thanks! It seems the solution is a combination of two commands and only working if added in rc.local(so no wsconsctl .conf)
wsconsctl -f /dev/wskbd1 keyboard.bell.volume.default=0 wsconsctl -f /dev/wskbd1 keyboard.bell.volume=0 Thank you. On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 2:07 PM Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 01:59:34PM +0200, Cristian Danila wrote: > > After many tried and attempts, I was not able to find a way to permanently > > disable openbsd keyboard "beep". Reading in different books about this: > > > > adding keyboard.bell.volume=0 into /etc/wsconsctl.conf > > adding wsconsctl -f /dev/wskbd1 keyboard.bell.volume=0 into /etc/rc.local > > > > Nothing really works permanently. > > > > I do use an KVM to control multiple machines and it seems these settings are > > persistent only till I switch to another machine and when I come back, > > beep is also back again. As far i see, when the keyboard/mouse are > > reconnected > > (due to kvm switch), the beep is back. > > > > Any idea if it is possible to mute it once forever? > > I'm not in front of a machine that I can test this on, but you could try: > > keyboard.bell.volume.default=0
