Comments on: Remove Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) login screen sound

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:26:45 +0000

This is crazy. No solution for every GDM. And only geek-type solutions.
Can Ubuntu aim at beeing user friendly with such kind of annoyances?
Always a new trick to shutdown the “login sound” – HA HA – this at each new release.
It must be someone realy mean setting things like this.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:16:56 +0000

I found the command line method someplace else as well. I tried it and it didn’t work. Then it dawned on me to restart gdm – that killed the little drum sound.

$ sudo service gdm restart

By: Limey

Limey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:32:08 +0000

Ah, I see the problem is with your site. It's changed the double dash (-) before 'set' and 'type' to a big single one. @Limey

By: Limey

Limey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:30:22 +0000

When I copy and pasted the above it didn’t work because some of the characters were not correct. Here is what worked…

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds –type bool false

I tried Conisant’s way as well, but the gconf-editor that came up was empty. Probably something to do with all the errors that also came up about a TCP problem with ORBit.

By: Conisant

Conisant — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:33:33 +0000

Hey,

a nice way to configure GDM is to start the gconf-editor as gdm.
To do so you have to be logged out (in the gdm login screen), change to a tty (ctrl + alt + F1) and then run the following commands:
$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
$ sudo -u gdm gconf-editor

Then change back to the xserver on tty7 (ctrl + alt + F7).
You will see the gconf-editor on the gdm screen and may configure what ever you want.
There you will be able to browse to the key /desktop/gnome/sounds.
Then you can uncheck the event_sounds value.

For me the commandline didn’t work out but the gconf-editor does the job.
Kinda strange, cause it should do the same…

Greetings from Germany, Conisant