But the methods it had for customizing it didn’t mention anything about playing thingsĪt startup, and digging around the method it mentioned (logging in as the GDM user and settingĬonfiguration options directly) also turned up nothing. Running was GDM, so i started looking at that Arch Wiki article to see what could be done toĬustomize it. I knew that the first thing that my computer ran when it could get a graphical environment

But after that, the trick became how to wedge that into the startup process of myĬomputer.

I could find a sample of the Windows 95 startup chimeįairly easily. The last few days i’ve just been getting more and more personal with the tweaks i’ve been putting I have it in a spot where i like it, and over That kind of environment for my personal computer. Up a common-use computer with Ubuntu for my roommates and i thought that it would be nice to use I’ve used Arch a lot in the past, but i hadn’t used it as a “daily driver”ĭesktop OS for a while, and i wanted to try out GNOME 3 as a desktop environment. Some background: My desktop currently runs Arch Linux, which i’ve been customizing over the last It was funny and it seemed like something i could configure relatively simply. I wanted my computer to play the Windows 95 startup sound when it booted up, like i was back in theĩ0’s and playing sound when the computer was ready was cool and expected. Last night i had a profoundly stupid idea, and today i got it working Yesterday i had what i called a “profoundly terrible idea”. Getting my computer to play the windows 95 startup sound | quiet misdreavus microblog quiet misdreavus microblog About Main Blog getting my computer to play the windows 95 startup sound