Bug 105177

Summary:	Play music on login screen
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdm	Reporter:	romek41
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description romek41 2005-05-06 09:50:08 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

It would be great to give the kdm the ability to play some music (from the playlist defined by root) while showing the login screen. When the user logs in, the music should fade out.

Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2005-05-06 23:50:46 UTC

stupid idea - people would spend their time at the login prompt instead of logging in and working. *g*

Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2005-07-09 21:36:04 UTC

some thoughts on this ...
this can be modelled directly after the background images: one image, a series of images (optionally randomized), or an external image generator. i think this would offer the most useful functionality without turning kdm into a complete media player.
not that this would be particularly high on my todo list ...

and now the next will come and request videos in the background ... :}

fwiw, there is already a solution to your request, it just happens to be a bit clumsy:
you could abuse the Preloader= option for running a player.
you could also use the Setup= and Startup= scripts for this purpose.
the latter solution would work even with xdm and would additionally add the possibility to delay the session startup for the time of the fading out.

Comment 3 Clifford Fell 2007-10-31 09:15:05 UTC

I would like to add that a notification sound that KDM is ready to login would be great. Just a short little "Hey, I'm Ready!", similar to what is available for GDM.

Comment 4 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-02-28 17:14:38 UTC

ok, putting it into the "useless gadgets" bug. :D

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 197581 ***