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  1. Bug #129029
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 129029

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TJ (tj) wrote : Re: No Sound on Login Screen or during Login in Gutsy Tribe 3

Comparing /etc/gdm/gdm.conf of Gutsy Tribe-5 to Feisty I found that the login sound is disabled in Gutsy.

To enable it, find this section:

#SoundOnLogin=false
#SoundOnLoginFile=

And replace with:

SoundOnLogin=true
SoundOnLoginFile=/usr/share/sounds/question.wav

The Log=in sound (drum roll) now plays.

You could edit SoundOnLoginSuccess in a similar way but from looking at Feisty this isn't the way it is done. It appears to be set on a per-user basis.

Checking ~/.gnome2/sound/events/gnome-2.soundlist I found it was empty. Altering the Sound Preferences: Sounds "Log out" or "Log in" causes the changes to be written to gnome-2.soundlist. Changes to other options are written to gtk-events-2.soundlist in the same directory.

Unfortunately this doesn't help to make the user log-in sounds play. I am continuing to investigate.