Comment 13 for bug 840858

Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) wrote on 2011-10-19:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2011-10-18:
>> Running
>>
>> /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"
>>
>> from a terminal window results in the error message "Failed to play
>> sound: File or data not found".
>
> Gunnar, your command to play the login sound still works here.

I just noticed that it works for me within a guest session, where the "Startup Applications" tool is useless by design...

At http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1566078 you find some guidance on how you can customize the guest session feature (which is designed to start with default settings), and disabling the login sound is one of the things shown.

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