Can I set a delay on startup sounds?

Question

Is there a way to have the start up sound wait like I did in conky like this?

#!/bin/bash
sleep 30 

Not that its a big deal but my comp boots so fast it does not have time to play the small ogg file i have as the start up sound. Or any other ideas on what i can do to get it to play?? Also shutdown goes so fast it does not finish that sound either? And as allways TYAVMIA :-)

Answer 1

Shutdown sounds were removed from Gnome, unfortunately. As for startup sounds, they should play fine (you shouldn't need to delay them; they'll continue to play after your desktop is available).

In System / Preferences / Startup Applications verify that "GNOME Login Sound" is enabled:

To configure a custom start-up sound, you'll have to create it manually at the moment:

mkdir - ~/.local/share/sounds/mysound
cd ~/.local/share/sounds/mysound
ln -s /the/sound/file/you/want.ogg desktop-login.ogg

And then in the same directory, create the file index.theme:

[Sound Theme]
Name=MySound
Inherits=ubuntu
Directories=.

Then you'll be able to select your theme in the drop-down of System / Preferences / Sound / Sound Effects / Sound theme.