How to bring up drumroll sound at login screen in 20.04

B H

10/28/22, 10:25 PM

As the title says, I've started using Ubuntu again after using other distros for quite some time, but I'm starting to feel a bit nostalgic for the old drumroll sound (system-ready.ogg) that would play when you would reach the login screen. I see there's no straightforward way to enable it so I was hoping to get some ideas on what I can do.

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N0rbert

11/1/22, 1:46 PM

What are your current desktop environment and graphical login manager?

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Ubuntu

N0rbert

11/1/22, 4:11 PM

Historically the system-ready sound was contained in ubuntu-sounds package which is used by unity-greeter.

To get drum sounds you have to install LightDM and configure it to use Unity login greeter.
Analysis of the logs gives a clue that we need to install PolicyKit service.
So the complete reproducible command is below:

sudo apt-get install lightdm unity-greeter ubuntu-sounds policykit-1 --no-install-recommends
# select lightdm in ncurses window

Then reboot and enjoy.

For Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS the setup is different. It uses slick-greeter.
To configure it we need to create special configuration file and install ubuntu-sounds package and specify path to the sound file:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-sounds

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf
[Greeter]
play-ready-sound=/usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg
EOF

Then reboot and enjoy.

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WinEunuuchs2Unix

11/3/22, 5:01 PM

Nice answer. There's a lot to be said of the well-thought out all-inclusiveness of Unity in a simple format unlike the complexity of Gnome bells and whistles requiring extensions. Indeed you could use Unity out of the box with Compiz and never have to install Compiz Session Manger. Even with Unity Tweak Tools installed.

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