how to play .wav on login FC11 ??

[Robert Nichols]

jack craig wrote:
> On 12/24/2009 02:42 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> jack craig wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I've been having a blast with audacity & a usb mic.
>>>
>>> anyone tried to have an .wav (or .mp3) file play on login ?
>>
>> I believe the method I just posted in the "Login sound in gnome desktop"
>> thread for FC-12 also works in FC-11. Create the directory
>> ~/.local/share/sounds/freedesktop and put a file or link named
>> desktop-login.wav there. Either .wav or .ogg will work. Forget about
>> mp3 files.
>>
> nope, no audio; any suggestions to debug?

Might be ~/.local/share/sounds/__custom instead of freedesktop.  Or,
you could do what I did and run this (word-wrapped) one-liner:

  strace -e trace=file -o /tmp/sound.trace /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play 
--id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"

Look at the end of /tmp/sound.strace to see what it was looking for.

That command, BTW, can be found from System -> Preferences -> Startup 
Applications -> GNOME Login Sound.  I suppose you could just edit that
item to run any sound-producing command you want and bypass all of
the GNOME configuration muck.

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