askubuntu: disable login screen drum beat

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:32:22 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>
>> I just thought of this while reading your response: provided that the
>> sound *IS* a *.wav file and not hard coded into some system file which
>> plays this sound when you logon.
>
> LOL. Firefox seems to use this sound, or perhaps, GNOME, in many places.
> I'm just now starting to realize how grating it is.  I found:
>
> thufir at tleilax:~$
> thufir at tleilax:~$ nl /usr/share/gnome/autostart/libcanberra-login-
> sound.desktop
>     1  [Desktop Entry]
>     2  Type=Application
>     3  Name=GNOME Login Sound
>     4  Comment=Plays a sound whenever you log in
>     5  Exec=/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --
> description="GNOME Login"
>     6  OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
>     7  AutostartCondition=GNOME /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds
>     8  X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Application
>     9  X-GNOME-Provides=login-sound
> thufir at tleilax:~$
>
> so I'm going to poke around in that vicinity to see if I can see what
> this drum beat goes back to.  Just a "ping" or something would be fine.
> Grr, GNOME, grr.  I mean, the sound makes it sound like the computer's
> about to explode, when it's only either logging out or Firefox is showing
> some dialog, or something else innocuous. Quite silly.

For the applications sound, disable the Sound theme in Sound Settings,
which can be found at the sound icon at the top right of your screen.



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Ioannis Vranos

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