Login drum sound

**mykrob** · March 5th, 2012

How do I disable the drum sound on the login screen?
I looked at lightdm.conf but saw nothing regarding sound options.

thanks,
-myk

**Harry33** · March 5th, 2012

Originally Posted by mykrob

How do I disable the drum sound on the login screen?
I looked at lightdm.conf but saw nothing regarding sound options.

thanks,
-myk

You probably mean system-ready sound.
At least you can force it to shut down by doing one of the following:

1. Delete the package gnome-session-canberra

2. Delete (or rename) the file /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/system-ready.oga

**1roxtar** · March 5th, 2012

Simply open up the Dash (Ubuntu Button), search for Startup Applications and uncheck Gnome Login Sound.

**mdurham** · March 5th, 2012

Originally Posted by 1roxtar

Simply open up the Dash (Ubuntu Button), search for Startup Applications and uncheck Gnome Login Sound.

The OP is not talking about the login sound.

**mykrob** · March 6th, 2012

This /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/system-ready.oga doesn't seem to exist.

And, as the last post stated, I'm looking to disable the noise that plays when the login screen first shows.

Keep 'em coming, we're bound to figure it out

**mc4man** · March 6th, 2012

Originally Posted by mykrob

This /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/system-ready.oga doesn't seem to exist.

Try dialog-question.ogg (/usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo

**VinDSL** · March 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by mykrob

How do I disable the drum sound on the login screen?

I like the login sounds, but there are times, such at my workplace, when I don't want to bring attention to myself with the Bongo Drum sound at login, et cetera.

Sorry, for being rudimentary, but...

What I do is mute the volume. That's it.

There will be no sounds, at all, until I unmute the volume, for instance: to watch a video, play music, or whatever.

Then, I simply mute the volume again, before log off/shut down.

**Squonk07** · April 6th, 2012

I finally broke down just now and did what I usually do, which is to generate in Audacity a tiny, 0.10 second audio file of silence, name it dialog-question.ogg, rename the original file in /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo to dialog-question.ogg.bak, and then move my generated file into that folder. I know I could just delete the original file, but somehow I don't like the idea of technically breaking the system. I'd rather just give it a silence file to play.

Every version of Ubuntu I hope that the devs will either:

A) remove this sound, or
B) at least offer some way of shutting it off in the UI (probably preferable as I'm sure some people appreciate the sound).

I've sort of given up hope on either of these happening, however.