In Karmic there is no easy way to disable the drums on gdm startup

[Jim Braux-Zin]

Binary package hint: gdm

Like most nomad users of laptops, I often end up switching my computer on in public places. I don't want unexpected sound to be heard. All sounds in the Gnome desktop are easily deactivated, thanks to the "Sounds" configuration item.

However, to disable the drums at GDM startup, you had to go to the "Login screen" configuration item on Jaunty (which wasn't that easy to find for new users), and it is much worse but in Karmic: gdmsetup had been stripped down (which is a good thing) and doesn't show the sound option anymore.

I would vote for simply disabling that sound by default, I can't see any need for it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: af33802e14559ea72cb98c14e2e08b69
CheckboxSystem: 9c26adf6eed2f681ba41f94dd24c07e4
Date: Fri Oct 9 15:16:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu14
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686

[Richard Hansen (rhansen)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #437429, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Richard Hansen (rhansen)]

Apologies, I marked this as a duplicate of the wrong bug. Bug #437429 appears to be about the sound that plays after login, while this bug report is about the sound that plays before login. I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug #445747.