[SOLVED] Login Sound

[bugfree]

How does one change the login startupsound.wav to something else.

I opened the boot folder (as administrator), copied another wav file to the folder and pointer the login path to this file in system settings. Now there is no login sound at all. Renamed the original startupsound.wav file to startupsoundold.wav and my new one to startupsound.wav. Still no go! Just pointing to a new wav file does not seem to work.

Anyone know how I can get my original startupsound back or indeed change to something of my choosing.

Thanks

[shengchieh]

Funny, I have no login sound and the microphone on my laptop is on.  I'm curious too.

Meanwhile - for the OP - a DDG search for    xfce login sound

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=xfce+login+sound

Sheng-Chieh

[bugfree]

I'm using 2.2 and 2.4 beta. Both have a pleasant inoffensive melody at login. Prior versions may not have this feature.

I was just trying to change the sound by going into system settings and altering the path indicated in the LinuxLite soundstartup file, which was aplay /boot/startupsound.wav.

Pointing this to another path did not work, neither did restoring the file back to it's original configuration. I'm guessing that the startupsound.wav file is in several locations, but where. I now have no startup sound at all.

It may be an XFCE desktop problem, rather than LL, but I wish it was as easy as a menu option. It's part of the fun having a discrete user defined startup sound, imho.

Anyone have any clues to fix this.
Cheers!

[Valtam]

Menu, Settings, Session and Startup, Application Autostart, does 'Login Sound' have a tick beside it?

[bugfree]

Hello Jerry,

Yes, there is a tick. I have unticked it now and rebooted, then applied the tick again and rebooted. Still no sound. The file being pointed to is aplay /boot/startupsound.wav and this file is in the boot folder. System sounds are playing normally btw, as is bluetooth after I apply the Schramm fix found on this forum.

Can I check anything else!
Cheers

[Valtam]

First step, restore the original file and try that.

[bugfree]

Yep, just did that and now working. Phew!

Now that this is resolved back to default, do you know how to change the startup sound.

Should it just be a matter of pointing the path to a new wav file, or is there something else needed.

I'll try this now, although I think this is where I started. Do I need to copy a new file into the boot folder and rename it startupsound.wav after renaming the original to old/orig etc.

[Valtam]

Lets do this one step at a time. Following my last instruction, now open a terminal and do:

Code:

ls -la /boot

post the results.

[bugfree]

Code:

linuxlite@linuxlite-Aspire-E1-571:~$ ls -la /boot
total 35536
drwxr-xr-x  5 root      root          4096 Mar 23 16:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root      root          4096 Mar 21 19:13 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root       1162233 May  3  2014 abi-3.13.0-24-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root        169631 May  3  2014 config-3.13.0-24-generic
drwxr-xr-x  3 root      root          4096 Jan  2 16:36 extlinux
drwxr-xr-x  5 root      root          4096 Nov 24 16:39 grub
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root         12288 Feb 24 11:41 i386-pc
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root      24922797 Mar 21 17:43 initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root        176500 Mar 12  2014 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root        178176 Mar 12  2014 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root        178680 Mar 12  2014 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 linuxlite linuxlite  1059958 Jul 18  2014 startupsoundorig.wav
-rw-rw-r--  1 root      root          7350 Mar 22 16:50 startupsound.wav
-rw-------  1 root      root       2685850 May  3  2014 System.map-3.13.0-24-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root       5800496 Nov 22 10:54 vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic
linuxlite@linuxlite-Aspire-E1-571:~$

I'm pointing to the startupsoundorig.wav which was the default I renamed and this works.

[Valtam]

I'm going to assume that the new file that you want to change to is currently called 'startupsound.wav' if it is, do the following:

Code:

sudo chown linuxlite:linuxlite /boot/startupsound.wav

re-point to that, and try that.