Hello Linux Geeksters. In this article I will show you how to disable or change the login sound on Linux Mint 15 Olivia, from the terminal. I have written this article a long time ago, and it looks like the instructions are the same.
The default sound file playing at startup on Linux Mint 15 Olivia is /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo/system-ready.ogg.
The easiest and quickest way to disable the login sound, is to rename or delete the system-ready.ogg file. In this article I will add the .old extension to the file, in order to easily re-enable it, if necesarry:
$ sudo mv /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo/system-ready.ogg{,.old}
To revert the changes, in order to re-enable the login sound:
$ sudo sudo mv /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo/system-ready.ogg.old /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo/system-ready.ogg
To set another sound file to play at startup, you have to name it system-ready.ogg and paste it in /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo. The sound file must be ogg, in order to be recognized by the system.
The easiest way for converting a sound file to ogg, is by using the ffmpeg tool.
In our case:
$ sudo ffmpeg -i /path/to/samplefile.mp3 /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo/system-ready.ogg