How to disable login sound on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric
Often i turn on my pc during lessons or talks and the ubuntu login sound makes the whole process not discrete and make people notice i’m in that room. This is likely a side effect you wouldn’t like to happen, like me. So here is how i removed the ubuntu login sound on my ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.
Open a terminal (open unity an look for terminal) and then paste this command:
gksudo gedit /usr/share/gnome/autostart/libcanberra-login-sound.desktop
Go at the bottom of the file and set NoDisplay=false. Save the file and then go to the power button in the top-right part of the screen, the one closer to your username. Then select Startup Applications… . You will find the ubuntu login sound in the menu. You can now select or deselect as you wish like in the following figure.
Categories: ubuntu
11.10, login sound, oneiric
Nice! Worked perfectly. Thanks =)
This is not the best way, if you want to disable the login sound you should copy the .desktop in your ~/.config/autostart, change the NoDisplay boolean to true, and then disable it with the GUI or adding the line to disable it
(gedit:13503): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel’, but failed: Failed to create file ‘/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.N3WS3V’: No such file or directory
You can ignore any warning from gedit. Don’t worry. It’s because you are running gedit without .local/share has been created. but it will be never created since you will never log in into the system as root
I cut and paste the line as you suggest and gedit comes up but it is a blank screen.
make sure you entered the correct password!
This workaround worked for me, thanks a lot.