HOWTO: Disable the login sound using the command line

[tom56]

I wanted to disable the Ubuntu login sound over the command line because my only access to the machine in question was over ssh. Here's how to do it, in the same way the GUI does it, so that it can be re-enabled using the GUI if necessary. Simply enter the following single command.

These instructions were tested on Ubuntu 10.10.

To disable login sound:

echo -e '\n[Desktop Entry]\nType=Application\nName=GNOME Login Sound\nComment=Plays a sound whenever you log in\nExec=/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"\nOnlyShowIn=GNOME;\nAutostartCondition=GNOME /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds\nX-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Application\nX-GNOME-Provides=login-sound\nX-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false' > ~/.config/autostart/libcanberra-login-sound.desktop

To renable:

rm ~/.config/autostart/libcanberra-login-sound.desktop

[Rytron]

Thanks for this.

[WarrenSH]

Thanks for this easy to do removal A++ write up

[samthethe]

I <3 1 liners.

Many thanks for this.