Re: Playing a sound when GDM is "ready"
- From: José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:18:13 -0400
Glenn J. Mason wrote:
Thanks! This actually helps a lot. Although I cannot findA simple explanation as to what gdm does to play a sound would help
greatly! Thanks very much
My understanding is that it uses a script:
/usr/lib/gdmplay
This in turn calls aplay, the ALSA player.
Maybe have a play with aplay and read the manpage for it? Perhaps, as someone
suggested, the ALSA mixer levels aren't reset until after you login? Or aplay
doesn't know which device to use?
HTH
--
Glenn J. Mason (glennji)
/usr/lib/gdmplay, it prompted me to look at what files are associated
with the gdm package on my system. I found some commented lines in
/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf that read:
# GDM Configuration file.
#
...
# If SoundOnLogin is true, then the greeter will beep when login is
ready for
# user input. If SoundOnLogin is a file and the greeter finds the 'play'
# executable (see daemon/SoundProgram) it will play that file instead of
just
# beeping.
#SoundOnLogin=true
It seems that the greeter looks for the 'play' command (from sox) which
I had not installed yet. When I installed sox (actually to try to play
the sound files as the first replier suggested), sound from gdm began to
work just fine. Thanks to both replies, they were very helpful.
--
Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque
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