Disable login sound instructions need updating

[Andrej Znidarsic]

I found a couple of instances where the user guide is giving wrong instructions:

The guide says:

Click the icon at the far top right of the screen and select System Settings.
In the Personal section, select Startup Applications.
Uncheck the GNOME Login Sound option.

But in fact when one goes to System Settings there is no Startup Application entry. Instead it's located in the menu, which appears when user clicks on the top right icon.

The guide says:

Disable the login sound for all users

Click the icon at the far top right of the screen and select System Settings.
In the System section, select Login Screen.
Click Unlock and enter your password into the popup authentication window.
Uncheck the Play login sound option.

But there is no "Login screen" option in the section System. I am not sure where to find this option.

[Jack O'Neill (jackoneill87)]

As of Oneiric, Display settings shows up in the same menu as System Settings. The first paragraph should say

It should read "Click the icon at the far top right of the screen and select Startup Applications.
Uncheck the GNOME login sound option.

It seems that changing startup applications for all users has been made a lot more difficult in 11.10, and as the login sound isn't in the /etc/xdg/autostart folder I'm guessing that this sound would need to be disabled for each user individually.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Jack, the particular file you are looking for to disable or enable system-wide is
/usr/share/gnome/autostart/libcanberra-login-sound.desktop

For Ubuntu 12.04, the login sound is currently planned to be disabled by default, so the Help will have to be adjusted anyway to reverse the instructions.

The help didn't get done for Ubuntu 11.10 partly because we had hit user documentation freeze by the time I noticed that it was out of date.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

It won't be possible to fix this for Ubuntu 11.10 since we're in string freeze so that translations are at the highest quality.

For Ubuntu 12.04, I disabled this page since the login sound is disabled by default and it basically requires using the command line to re-enable it.

[John Kim (kotux)]

What is the URL with the issue?

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