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stupidus

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Registered: 2012-02-27

Posts: 124

KDE plays notification sound, even though I disabled it

Hello,

I have a weird problem with KDE (well, several actually, but only one is really bothering me). I disabled all audio notifications via the KDE settings (No audio output in player settings).
Nevertheless, KDE plays some beep under certain circumstances. I can reproduce this e.g. by connecting a USB flash drive. This will cause some error message (see screenshot), that a audio device does not work anymore. While this is a weird bug in itself, I do not care so much about that. The only problem is that this error message is accompagnied by an actual sound notification.
How can I force KDE to never play any sound notifications?

BTW I have seen error messages like the one in the screenshot for a long time now (usually on hardware changes like flash drives), but it did not play a notification sound before.

P.S. I managed to get rid of the error from the screenshot, by selecting the checkbox and then clicking "no". Now I cannot provoke the error anymore. So, I probably should not have done that because I don't think that the problem with the notification sounds is actually solved yet.

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 558

Re: KDE plays notification sound, even though I disabled it

you can try with a new KDE profile, in order to be sure that it's not a corrupt KDE profile who triggers the bug