Comment 10 for bug 949782

Thanks for the tips, guys. Ranting aside, I appreciate the effort. My main source of frustration probably stems from the number of times I've run into this over the past few years. Each release, I have to google for an answer and most of the posts to the Ubuntu forums relate to earlier releases and the fixes are not applicable to the current release or current flavor of login manager (gdm, gdm2 or lightdm). Eventually a bug gets filed and a few weeks later, a solution is posted. I would guess that I've spent upwards of 15+ hours messing around with the various incarnations of this same issue when you add it all up. Each time it gets a little more frustrating.

I would like to point out that in prior releases (10.04 and earlier maybe?), when setting the "No Effects" option, the user was given the option to make the setting global and this did in fact disable the login sound. That's why I mentioned it in my prior comment. Also, my experience with turning the volume down on the login screen is that it not persistent. It seems to track to whatever setting the last logged in user set. I basically gave up and quit trying that so maybe it does work now. I'll test it out and file a separate bug report if that is still the case.