How do I turn the beep slash bell off in cygwin?
The default terminal mintty has built-in options to control the terminal bell.
- Right-click on the background and click "Options..."
- Select the "Terminal" section.
- Change the "Bell" dropdown to "none"
Note: Here you can also enable or disable the visible bell (terminal flashing) and to highlight the taskbar icon on a bell ring.
Cut the wire to your speaker. :-)
Add set bell-style none to .inputrc in your home directory. You need to start a new shell for this to take effect; that may be why your test didn't work.