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I want to disable the startup sound effects that play when the login greeter appears after booting Ubuntu 15.10. How can this be done?

Daniel
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d3pd
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With one command in your terminal, disable with

gsettings set com.canonical.unity-greeter play-ready-sound "false"

and/or enable with

gsettings set com.canonical.unity-greeter play-ready-sound "true"

Or install dconf-editor

sudo apt-get install dconf-editor

and run

dconf-editor

Navigate to

com.canonical.unity-greeter

in the left pane. In the right pane you will see play-ready-sound

and you could do the same in a GUI.

A.B.
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  • Although gsettings command worked (I was able to set from true to false), nothing changed. I'm on Ubuntu 17.04. Can it be the cause? After a restart, the drum roll still there. Should the command be run with a special user? If yes, how? – Alexandre Schmidt Jun 23 '17 at 20:43