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Bug 597731 - Cannot customize login sound
Cannot customize login sound
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-07 21:01 UTC by komputes
Modified: 2010-06-04 20:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description komputes 2009-10-07 21:01:58 UTC
When you log into Karmic using a Gnome session, you get a drum sound. There are many situations where you need a silent boot process. Other users may want to modify the sound that plays when logging in/out (or login error). This feature is impossible under Karmic (GNOME 2.28.0).

In previous releases, "Login Window" (gdmsetup) allowed you to specify a file or to log in/out silently. This configuration has been removed.

Requesting this feature be brought back.
Comment 1 komputes 2009-10-07 21:11:59 UTC
Originally reported here:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/437429
Comment 2 Nicolay Doytchev 2009-10-27 16:15:21 UTC
Guys please take a look at this bug. This is a major issue for a large number of laptop users while in noise free environments. We need to be able to turn the pre-login sound off and we also need to be able to disable certain sound notifications inside a session without disabling others. Currently if we want to disable the login sound we need to either select No Sounds theme in Sounds or to mute Alert volume. Both of these lead to nullifying the sound notifications in Empathy too. Maybe other software too. If we disable the GNOME Login Sound from Startup Applications, it gets reenabled if any sound theme is selected.

The current condition is below any level we had before. The volume control application is greatly improved but alert sound customization == null. For now Ubuntu devs say they will not hack the application but wait for you guys to make an upstream change. Please help.
Comment 3 Ronny Standtke 2009-11-15 21:24:58 UTC
Unfortunately, I have to join in here. This issue is *very* serious. Quite a few of my colleagues (working in a university) dumped the latest Ubuntu just because of this very issue.
Comment 4 James E. LaBarre 2009-11-16 23:03:51 UTC
I also would suggest this needs to be fixed sooner rather than later in the GDM config.  This is a critical function, and should never have been removed from the configuration screen.  Regardless of whatever problems you had with maintaining the old code, if you cannot maintain *equivalent* functionality, than you should not remove the old version of a configuration tool.  Unlike the prior poster, this *in itself* is not sufficient to cause me to move back to Ubuntu 9.04, but will (along with other breakages in 9.10) *contribute* to that move.
Comment 5 bugs 2009-12-13 11:25:17 UTC
It actually kind of takes my breath away that Karmic shipped with xsplash at all. There is no useful way to customize xsplash, either as a user or as an administrator. Even if you want to hack on it, it is completely undocumented. 

It looks like xsplash itself is cool technology, but without any meaningful configuration infrastructure or documentation, there is no way it belongs in a release. 

This is alpha quality software at best. It looks like people got a little too excited about the new shiny thing, and ignored the basic principles of cutting a release. 

There was nothing wrong with the old GDM. A lot of time and effort has been invested in making it robust and customizable. There is a huge library of much-loved themes. If you can't even turn off the stupid bongos in xsplash, then its definitely not ready to replace GDM.

I suppose it was shipped broken and unfinished because the Gnome developers didn't want to wait for the last 2.x release to ship it.
Comment 6 Martin Olsson 2010-03-13 12:01:28 UTC
Can someone from GNOME comment on whether this is a valid GNOME bug or not? Should GDM be patched to fix this or should the fix target some other component?
Comment 7 William Jon McCann 2010-06-04 20:57:10 UTC
The sound theme is not GNOME.  Ubuntu ships their own and there is an upstream one at freedesktop.Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
However, this application does not track its bugs in the GNOME Bugzilla. We kindly ask you to report the bug to the application authors. For a selective list of other bug tracking systems please consult http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/TriageGuide/NonGnome.

If the affected third party application has a bug tracking system you should investigate whether a bug for the reported issue is already filed in this system. If it has not been filed yet please do so. Also ensure that both bug reports contain a link to each other.
Thanks in advance!