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So I keep having a sound that was playing often in the background and no event seems to be tied to it, that sounds very similar to service-login.ogg in /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/.

I don't know what other information to give but its driving me nuts and like I said I can't see any event or program that is causing it to happen. Any help with what it is, or tracking it down is greatly appreciated.

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    It is a single chime? I've heard something like this, intermittently.
    – user207268
    Oct 24, 2013 at 21:04

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To find out which application plays this sound please open the Sound Settings... menu and watch the Applications tab while the sound plays:

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On the command line we may also issue the following command to list various informations on a current audio stream through Pulse Audio:

pacmd list-sink-inputs

This will display not only the application streaming audio (application.name) but also the PID of this application (application.process.id) and information on the media content.

If we do not wish system sounds to play we can disable these in the Sound Effects tab from the Sound Settings... and see if the annoyance stops.

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  • Thanks for making this an answer, hopefully it will help other new users!
    – jefffan24
    Oct 28, 2013 at 13:30
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    Any updates for 20.04?
    – agirault
    Apr 7, 2022 at 17:23

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