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Howto disable sound when selecting a login name in GDM on Fedora 14

January 5th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Here’s a quick way to get rid of that annoying beep sound when selecting a login name in the GDM greeter on Fedora 14:

As root type the following command:
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 –type=bool –set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false

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  1. schanzle
    January 30th, 2011 at 21:50 | #1
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    Hmm, didn’t work for me, but from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503360#c13

    gconftool-2 –direct \
    –config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
    -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false

    pkill gdm

    worked.

  2. Patrick
    January 30th, 2011 at 23:36 | #2
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    Hi schanzle. Thank you for your solution. The one I use is part of the %post section in a kickstart file. Maybe that is the difference why it works for me an not for you. Anyway, glad you got it working. Let’s hope that GDM will get some more TLC and possibly even an app to manage all those settings in a more sane way. Unfortunately judging from Ray Strode’s comment in BZ503360 and other comments I doubt things will change.

    Perhaps useful to others: http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.24/

  3. Hugh Carrico
    January 15th, 2012 at 05:23 | #3
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    Appreciate you sharing, great article post.Really thank you! Great.

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