up login sound when Ubuntu Gnome startup

This post was written by admin on April 17, 2010
Posted Under: General

This tutorial shows how to turn off gnome login sound or adjust the volume when Ubuntu startup.

1.To turn off login sound,go to System->Preferences->Startup Applications.In Startup Programs tab scroll down to find out “GNOME Login Sound” and uncheck it.

In Ubuntu 10.04,go to System->Administration->Login Screen.There is an options says “Play login sound”,but this doesn’t work after I uncheck this option and I’ve no idea what this option exactly do.

2.To adjust login sound volume.First,highlight “GNOME Login Sound” in first picture and click Edit,in command box change:
/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"
to
/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play -V -40.0 --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"
Note,the -V parameter describes the volume in decibel (neg logarithm), so 0 corresponds to full volume and -50 can barely be heard.

Thanks clausfse from ubuntuforums

To turn off login sound right click on sound icon in top panel and select sound preference and select sound theme to no sounds.

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Written By arulmozhi r. on April 18th, 2010 @ 3:58 am

The option “play login sound” in System->Administration->Login Screen is responsible for the “drum sound” before you actually log in.

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Written By Nina on July 20th, 2010 @ 11:23 am

Then how to turn on and off the sound which we get after we enter our password.. ie after we login

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syberghost Reply:
August 25th, 2010 at 7:05 pm

By following the information in this guide; step #1 is how how to do that.

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Written By Manzoor on August 13th, 2010 @ 12:32 am

The option for turning off the drum sound in Ubuntu 10.04 did not work for me (System->Administration->Login Screen, uncheck “Play login sound”), until I also chose “User defined session” in the box Select as default session (same window, bottom).

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Written By a1 on December 8th, 2010 @ 9:14 am