This tutorial shows how to enable or customize your login sound on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. This can be done by adding a startup application.

Objectives:

• Play a sound / music when login on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring.
• Enjoy!

To get started, open ‘Startup Applications’ utility from Unity dash search results.

In next window, click ‘Add’ button to add a program to start at login. Then give a name, comment, and command to play the sound file.

To play the classic gnome login sound, use below in command area. Change the value of “–volume” to turn up / down.

/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="play login sound" --volume=10

To play a custom sound, install mplayer (Movie player for Unix-like systems), then type following in command area:

mplayer path/to/your/sound/file/name

For example, I have Hello-Moto.mp3 in my Music folder. The file path is /home/handbook/Music/Hello-Moto.mp3, where handbook is my username. So I use:

mplayer /home/handbook/Music/Hello-Moto.mp3