Using CTRL+F with Firefox in KDE produces a BEEP sound on my motherboard on various distros

[nicknick]

Hello friends.

I am new to Linux but have tried Ubuntu, Fedora and now I am only using EndeavourOS as I want it to be my only distro. I’ve tried all of these distros this month, with the GNOME and KDE desktop.

Everything works fine, but when I press CTRL+F, and type something in Firefox, and the search doesn’t find anything and the field appears red, the motherboard beeps. That is to say, physically inside my tower, a loud sound, similar to the one I use when I turn on my PC, but different.

It only happens in firefox with KDE, in the 3 different distros, it doesn’t happen with GNOME. If I use firefox in GNOME, the sound will be heard correctly through the headphones.

My pc is an i-5 3470, nvidia gtx 1050 ti, 8gb ram, gigabyte H61M-D2H-USB3 motherboard.

My pc is quite old, I only have GRUB because my motherboard is very old, but it’s the only one I have.

Maybe it’s a bug that will be fixed over time, but I don’t know. Maybe some of you can help me, since, although it is not too annoying, I would like to solve it, for fear that it drains the battery on the motherboard, or something.

Thanks in advance.

[xircon]

Is there any way to disable the *BEEP* noise from xfce?

I’m talking about the noise that plays when i press the logout menu or accidentally press the arrow key by mistake. I tried doing xset b off and it worked but it resets itself after every restart. Is there anywhere i can permanently turn that sound off because it blows my eardrums out whenever i have headphones on haha Thanks <3

[kainonergon]

Hi. You can read this wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PC_speaker#Disabling_the_PC_speaker
PS.
For KDE see this section:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PC_speaker#KDE_Plasma

[nicknick]

Thank you very much friend, this solved my problem!

I don’t know if this is the best way to do it, or doing it from the terminal might be better, but I chose this because I’m new to Linux.

Thanks my friend!

[nicknick]

Thank you very much friend, although I have chosen the option to deactivate it from system configuration > accessibility > bell.

I don’t know if it’s better to do it from the terminal, or if the result is the same.

Thanks again my friend!

[pebcak]

@nicknick

I don’t know if it’s better to do it from the terminal, or if the result is the same.

By doing it via terminal as suggested, you will block the driver for the device to be loaded and therefore you disable it at the hardware level, so to speak.