GDM allows to define sounds for various events, those are not currently working on Gentoo. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open GDMSetup 2. Enable Sounds 3. Restart GDM Actual Results: No Sound. Expected Results: Sound effects. The default config for GDM includes this line: #SoundProgram=/usr/bin/play However, /usr/bin/play doesn't exist on my system and therefore sounds don't play. A possible solution (which is used by Ubuntu) is to write a wrapper script like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/aplay -q -N "$@" 2> /dev/null This is put into a file called "/usr/lib/gdmplay". Next, the GDM config in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf needs to be modified to include this line: SoundProgram=/usr/lib/gdmplay Result: Sounds in GDM work as expected.
this is a user configuration problem but it is probably a good idea to provide this script. @herd, what say you ?
As long as the default is unchanged (ie, not playing sounds) then ACK from me. Thanks
As long as my gdm doesn't suddenly start playing sounds, it's fine with me.
fixed in 2.20.9.
