How to turn off the bell sound in Intellij

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How do you disable the bell sound in Intellij.

I am using the IdeaVim plugin for Intellij on Mac OS X and want to mute the sound.

Johnny G · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-03T17:42:06.030

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Basically, IdeaVIM reads your ~/.ideavimrc (~/.vimrc pre-v0.35) file and silently ignores any settings it does not understand. Of the bell-related settings, it does not understand :set noerrorbells, but it does understand :set visualbell. And since it has no implementation for a visual bell, it will do nothing and achieve the desired effect.

So in your ~/.ideavimrc, you can use the following:

set visualbell
set noerrorbells

This will set the (non-functional) visual bell for IdeaVIM while disabling the bell completely for VIM itself.

edited Jul 03 '14 at 17:42

answered Nov 18 '13 at 04:35

Johnny G

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Note that as of v0.35, IdeaVIM no longer uses the ~/.vimrc, it now uses ~/.ideavimrc. – Andrew Lank Jun 17 '14 at 16:28
This is not working for me in IntelliJ 2018.2 and IdeaVim 0.50 on Windows 10 – Michael Dorst Nov 05 '18 at 03:32
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on windows (7) it is _ideavimrc instead of .ideavimrc in your C:\Users\\ folder – Chris Mar 11 '19 at 21:04
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_Peace (and quiet) be with you._ – Joshua Pinter Jan 06 '21 at 22:02
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after doing this, I was about to lose hope, but I just had to restart _all_ of the open IntelliJ windows I had – emmagras Jan 11 '21 at 16:35
Works perfectly in PhpStorm 2020.3.2 (Build #PS-203.7148.74) – Matthew Setter Feb 24 '21 at 10:48
Thanks, note that for me running IDEA 2020.3 on macOS Big Sur, I also had to restart IDEA. – Subfuzion Feb 24 '21 at 22:27
This is way too many steps to disable something that is so annoying. Can't this just be added to the plugin config UI? Sorry, just venting. – Roy Truelove Apr 29 '21 at 19:41
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Windows folks - don't forget to remove the `.txt` from the end of your _ideavimrc file, like I did. – Roy Truelove Apr 29 '21 at 19:57
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This answer has aged remarkably well, 8 years! Solved it in IJ 2021.1.3, but I wonder why I only started experiencing the issue now? I've used ideavim for years! – Niel de Wet Jul 08 '21 at 08:07
For me, all of a sudden, I had a visual bell (screen flashes in negative colors). `set visualbell` solved my problem. – Valentin Grégoire Jun 13 '22 at 11:03

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 15 '15 at 08:49

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I wanted to disable the Bell sound throughout all of my Mac, including AppCode. Did this by sliding Alert Volume to 0 in System Settings > Sound on my Mac

answered Jul 15 '15 at 08:49

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Blissful peace! Thanks :) – levacjeep Aug 29 '19 at 15:47
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An update for those who find this post five years later like I did. Unfortunately, system sound settings doesn't control this bell for Macos Catalina and Intellij 2020.2. Adding `set noerrorbells` and `set visualbell` in `~/.ideavimrc` does still work. – Shawn Dec 07 '20 at 18:16
It did for me with macOS 12.1 (Monterey) and PyCharm 2021.3 – leafmeal Dec 27 '21 at 22:11
This works for me too on Monterrey 12.3. I'm not sure why the ~/.ideavimrc fix didn't work. – mellow-yellow Aug 19 '22 at 15:57

How to turn off the bell sound in Intellij

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