From 41ffad8e5ce760205815b9346d083d6b71fab5f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 09:50:19 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore failures to beep

---
 kitty/window.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kitty/window.py b/kitty/window.py
index dfdc2e646..a59a35933 100644
--- a/kitty/window.py
+++ b/kitty/window.py
@@ -108,8 +108,11 @@ class Window:
         wakeup()
 
     def bell(self):
-        with open('/dev/tty', 'wb') as f:
-            f.write(b'\007')
+        try:
+            with open('/dev/tty', 'wb') as f:
+                f.write(b'\007')
+        except EnvironmentError:
+            pass  # failure to beep is not critical
         if self.opts.visual_bell_duration > 0:
             self.start_visual_bell_at = monotonic()
             glfw_post_empty_event()