How To Disable The Login Sound On Linux Mint 15 Olivia Via CommandLine Interface

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.

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The default sound file playing at startup on Linux Mint 15 Olivia is /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo/system-ready.ogg.

how to disable or change the login sound on Linux Mint 15 Olivia, from the terminal.

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

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