System Ready Sound

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I am successful with the system login sound. But I can’t find how to enable the system ready sound, the drum beat when presented with the username/password box.

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Hi @jaybo,

Sound Settings > Sound Effects:

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I see that setting, but how do I enable system ready sound?

One thing I did notice with sound settings is that the alert volume is always far left. If I adjust to the right, the setting always reverts left after closing the window. I see yours is far right.

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Hi,

see #8 here:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+question/199411

As for the sound slider resetting itself, well it has been doing that for ages, maybe one day Ubuntu will fix it along with the 200 or so standard bugs in Ubuntu?. :smiley:

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16.04

The sound has been part of unity-greeter but Ubuntu MATE 16.04 uses lightdm-gtk-greeter.

I couldn't find a configuration option nor could I get a script to work... but I found another way. :wink:

  1. Open LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings (in System → Administration) and go to the Misc. tab.

  2. Assuming you do not use the on-screen reader (orca), replace orca with:

     /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id=system-ready

  3. Underneath, set the drop down to say "Enabled at start" and then click Save.

Only slight quirk is that it plays a second or two when the login screen first appears. :slight_smile:

18.04-20.04

The greeter is now slick-greeter which was a fork of unity-greeter.

:package: In 20.04 onwards, install the ubuntu-sounds package.

In the terminal, edit this file as root, create it if it doesn't exist.

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf

Paste this inside:

[Greeter]
play-ready-sound=/usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg

Press CTRL + X then Y to save.

:warning: This file will be overwritten if you use the Login Window tool in future!

21.04+

slick-greeter is now artica-greeter, which is a fork lead by the Ayatana project for distro-agnostic indicators.

Install the ubuntu-sounds package:

sudo apt install ubuntu-sounds

Similarly to 20.04:

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-arctica-greeter.conf

Add to the bottom (or any existing [Greeter]):

[Greeter]
play-ready-sound=/usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg

Press CTRL + X then Y to save.

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Thanks. Works as expected.

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Any recommendations to bring the drum roll back for 18.04.

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Yep, I updated the post above to include instructions for 18.04. :thumbsup:

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Thanks! Worked perfectly.

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Thanks! Works like a charm!

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Can the same be accomplished in 20.04?

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It sure can! I updated the solution post #5 again.