"Play login sound" on Login Screen Settings is a misleading label

[Barry Warsaw]

Binary package hint: gdm

Bug 437429 described a problem where you could not disable the login sound. With the addition of "Play login sound" setting on Login Screen Settings in Lucid, that bug was Fixed Released. However, even when disabled, login still plays the musical sound. It appears as if gdm is simply ignoring this setting, as either checked or unchecked still plays the music when logging in.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The settings display the gdm sound which is played when the login screen is ready, to disable the login sound you want to disable the login sound for your user session (system, preferences, sounds) by turning the sound theme to no sound for example

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

That's very odd, but I guess if that's the way it's supposed to work, okay. I think in that case "Play login sound" is a misleading title because it implies that it controls the sound played when I actually log in. It should probably read "Play sound when login screen is ready".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The tool is the login screen configuration one but fair enough, string freeze is in effect for lucid but we can revisit that next cycle

[spencerrecneps (spencerjgardner)]

We're already almost at Natty and I'm still having this problem. I have turned off the login sound on the login screen and my system sound settings are set to "No Sounds" and I still get the drums. It seems very user-unfriendly to provide an option to uncheck the login sound and then proceed to ignore the option.

[spencerrecneps (spencerjgardner)]

I'm running an updated Natty, by the way

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

@spencerrecneps: you are seeing bug 778569 - you have to check and then uncheck the box to make it stick.