Ubuntu Mate 24.10: how to enable sound notification when unmounting device?

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Dear all,

I’m a new Ubuntu user and have Ubuntu Mate 24.10. I noticed that when I mount or unmount a device (e.g. a USB flash drive), there is no sound. I have a useful icon in my panel for removing safely USB drives but when I click on it, there is no notification nor sound which would tell me “you can remove the drive NOW”.

My earlier system Linux Mint had that kind of sound, I found that very useful, and in Windows, there was at least a visual notification. But under Ubuntu Mate, I just wait for five or ten seconds and then remove the drive hoping that nothing goes wrong. I would like to have a such a sound (or at least a visual notification) when unmounting a drive. Is that possible with Ubuntu Mate 24.10 ? I didn’t find anything in the settings that are available in the main menu…

Any help is appreciated.

Kind regards from Munich, Germany :slight_smile:

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welcome @12points
I’m not sure I can help, but maybe get the ball rolling for you, show us this Please:

cd /usr/share/sounds/mate/default/alerts/ && ls

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cd /usr/share/sounds/mate/default/alerts/ && ls

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It has been many years since I last used Mate @Norm24 thanks for the correction.

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The result is:

bark.ogg  drip.ogg  glass.ogg  sonar.ogg
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Sorry about the late response,battling Lyme disease.

That output is just the available sounds.On my 24.01 system I can enable a sound for just about everything but adding/removing a USB device isn’t one I’ve been able to make happen.

Using this link as a starting point:
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/how-to-add-sound-for-popup-notifications/6120
I took a look at various sound settings using dconf-editor and I could not find anything that would allow for a sound notification when adding/removing hardware.

I don’t know if any of the folks over at the Mate Discourse frequent here or not but you may want to make a post over there also to reach as many people as possible.

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Thank you for the kind reply! That is really curious, I would have thought that it is just something usual to get a sound or visual notification when your USB device can safely be removed that I can hardly imagine that there is no option to turn it on.

Thank you for the advice of asking my question in the mate specific community, I will try that!

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You are not the only one.