System Ready Sound

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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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