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Asked: 2014-12-07 08:29:21 +0800 CST

How can I disable all "Ubuntu sounds"?

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Sometimes Ubuntu issues sounds for certain events. For example, when a user logs out, Ubuntu plays a short drum beat snippet.

These "sounds" are nice quality. But I need a "soundless" sound profile to prevent any noise when I operate in quiet environments. How can I prevent Ubuntu from issuing any sounds? With Microsoft Windows, I can just select a "No Sound" profile.

I tried Sound > Sound Effects > Alert Volume = Mute. but this does nothing.

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7 Answers

  1. On Ubuntu 14.04, running this command solved it for me instantly:

    dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/sound/event-sounds false
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  2. To mute the Alert Sounds along with the login/logout sounds:

    Using Ubuntu Tweak

    Install Ubuntu Tweak

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

    Once installed, launch it and select Tweaks, then Sounds to make your selections:

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    Without using Ubuntu Tweak

    Open the Sound Menu in System

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    This will diasable the Alert Sounds. To also disable the login sound we first have to make Gnome Login Sound visable in startup Applications. To do this, open a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T) and enter:

    sudo gedit /usr/share/gnome/autostart/libcanberra-login-sound.desktop

    In the gedit window that opens, change the line that reads "NoDisplay=true" to "NoDisplay=false".

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    Open your Startup Applications through the Dash and then make sure Gnome Login Sound is unslected:

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    Note: Disabling Gnome Login Sounds does not work for later versions of Ubuntu. For that you can disable the login sounds by Muting the sound at the login screen. However, sometimes this transfers over to the user making you have to un-mute when logged in. But it will stick in the login screen.*

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  3. Like you I like a silent computer & I dislike the Ubuntu drum sound on start-up & reboot.

    My solution to silence my computer was to get an old set of headphones, or ones that no longer work, and cut off the cord at the headphone jack and place the remaining headphone jack in the headphone socket on the computer. When you want to listen to sounds take out the silencing headphone jack.

    It's crude and a software/system setting solution would be better, but it works!

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  4. The Sound Preferences dialog is a bit mysterious since not everything has an obvious effect.

    There are, however, a couple of things that seem to be useful here:

    • Set the "Sound theme" to "No sounds"
    • Disable the checkbox for "Enable window and button sounds"
    • Open the dialog in Ubuntu MATE: System->Preferences->Sound
    • Open the dialog from the MATE command line: mate-volume-control
    • Just guessing, but this might be gnome-volume-control when not using MATE desktop

    Sound Preferences dialog

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  5. Another way is to get rid of the ogg file itself. Go to /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo and replace the system-ready.ogg file with a silence.ogg file which you can shorten with Audacity.

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  6. In Ubuntu 20.04 what I did to resolve this issue is:

    ❯ cd /usr/share/sounds/Yaru/stereo
❯ sudo mv power-unplug.oga power-unplug.oga_removed
❯ sudo mv power-plug.oga power-plug.oga_removed

    This is the only solution that worked for me

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  7. Sometimes Ubuntu sound configuration just not working...
    For example the alert sound is too noisy and annoying and sometimes it makes error or occurs lagging but whatever I changing in sound setting, it never works.

    If you want to turn off completely every sound from Ubuntu than you can just remove pulseaudio.

    sudo apt purge pulseaudio

    And if you want to turn on sound later, than just reinstall the pulseaudio.

    sudo apt install pulseaudio
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