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+Startup Sounds with SLiM
+========================
+:author: Aaron Ball
+:email: nullspoon@iohq.net
+
+
+== {doctitle}
+
+For a pretty long time I've been running Xfce for my desktop and SLiM as my
+login manager to save on boot time. This weekend though, I decided that a
+second or two added to my boot time wouldn't bother me too much if it made my
+system a little less utilitarian.
+
+Inevitably, the first places to look are (completely unecessary, yes I know) a
+fancy theme for Xfce (sprinkle a little transparency in there to taste), new
+icons, cool theme for my login manager, and a startup sound.
+
+Most of that was really easy. The startup sound on the other hand is something
+not so well documented (especially with SLiM). I dabbled around a bit and had
+an idea that believe it or not, worked on the first try.
+
+First off, I hit up good 'ol gnome-look.org for some system sounds to try out
+and settled finally on the
+http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/%22Borealis%22+sound+theme?content=12584[Borealis
+sound scheme].
+
+Once you've got the sound file you want (I used Exit1_1.wav for mine), actually
+getting it to run on startup is actually really simple. All you need to do is
+add a line to your rc.conf file that has mplayer open up your sound you want
+played. For example...
+
+----
+mplayer /home/username/.sounds/Exit1_1.wav
+----
+
+One minor thing here for you SysV users out there you don't have an rc.local
+file. To do this with a system that uses System V for initialization (Debian,
+most forks of Debian I believe, Fedora, etc.), you need to create a script at
+*/etc/init.d/local* (you can call it whatever, but for the purposes of this,
+we'll call it local). Once the script is created, add the following lines
+(referencing my example above)...
+
+----
+#!/bin/sh
+mplayer /home/username/.sounds/Exit1_1.wav
+----
+
+Now that we've added those, we need to run
+
+----
+update-rc.d /etc/init.d/local defaults 80
+----
+
+and you should be good to go.
+
+Now, there is one concern here that could potentially cause some issues.
+If you shut your computer down with the volume turned up, when your
+computer boots back up again, you'll get a nice loud system startup
+sound. To remedy this, we simply need to reset our volume before we call
+mplayer in our script. To do this, we just add the following line before
+the mplayer line:
+
+----
+amixer set Master 30%
+----
+
+That sets our volume to 30%. If you want to set it higher or lower, you can
+just change that percentage value.
+
+Category:Linux
+Category:SLiM
+
+
+// vim: set syntax=asciidoc: