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I can't seem to figure out how to disable the bell when starting an xterm in XQuartz (X11) on OS X. Once my xterm window is up I can use xset -b but I don't know how to do this by default.

As far as I can tell there is no startup option for the xterm command to achieve this (other than visual bell, which I also don't want). I have tried putting the xset command into my .bashrc or into .xinitrc both of which cause XQuartz to fail to open an xterm window.

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In the newest Xquartz, you may write in a Terminal:

defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 app_to_run /usr/bin/true

Then no more annoying xterm. See http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X11-UsersFAQ .

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Unfortunately this does not answer the question at all. I am trying to disable the bell in xterm, not disable opening an xterm window when opening x11.app. – amicitas Apr 15 '11 at 4:52
Oooops! sorry! Was doing two things at the same time. Anyway, you can write a script in favorite bin, say, no_bell_term, with the lines: xset -b\n/usr/X11/bin/xterm; make it executable and replace the '/usr/bin/true' by this in the previous snippet. It worked for me. – Martial Boniou Apr 15 '11 at 20:40
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