Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome shell - suspend wake up sound

Question

I would like to be able to enable some sound file to play whenever I suspend and wake up my netbook (MSI Wind u100) but I can't found a way to do this in gnome shell.

I'm using PinguyOS 11.10, which is Ubuntu 11.10 based distro.

The idea is to make my netbook to basically greet me every time I wake up from suspend. Something like "Welcome back, Master" announced by a sexy robotic voice.

Answer 1

Try putting a script in /etc/pm/sleep.d/. Scripts in this folder gets launched on resume from sleep.

The file could look something like this

#!/bin/sh
mplayer '/path/to/file/music.mp3'

Don't forget to run the command chmod +x yourscriptfilename so that the file is executable.

Answer 2

Do you have "libcanberra" installed? I am running Fedora18--gnome, and currently I have an "autostart" script for the login sound that executes the following command:

Exec=/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play -f /home/user/.local/share/sounds/.../desktop-login.ogg

Try this, if you want:

1. Place the sound-file (if it's not already) in /usr/share/sounds

2. Create a script, as already suggested in /etc/pm/sleep.d containing something like

   #!/bin/sh
   /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play -f /path/to/sound/file

As I said, my login-sound file is a simple desktop-entry in the ~/.config/autostart directory with the aforementioned "Exec=..." line along with everything else that goes in a Desktop Entry, of course. Best of luck