After KDE 6, firefox/thunderbird has sound effects on min/max/close

kyngs · 2024-03-08 16:04:12

So, this is quite bizarre.
After I updated to KDE 6, Firefox/Thunderbird had some bogus sound effects when I pressed the close/minimize/maximize buttons.
The effects are distracting and Firefox/Thunderbird is the only application that has them, here's a video demonstrating the behavior (don't forget to set the volume to max)
https://youtu.be/ufAvIyfOtn0/
Any idea how to get rid of these?

EDIT: It seems like the effect is coming from the DE itself, as when I mute firefox, it persists.

Last edited by kyngs (2024-03-08 16:55:38)

cumfarts · 2024-03-08 19:29:10

i'm having the same issue too, only way ive managed to get rid of it is to disable notification sounds entirely which isnt ideal...

kyngs · 2024-03-09 08:18:49

cumfarts wrote:

i'm having the same issue too, only way ive managed to get rid of it is to disable notification sounds entirely which isnt ideal...

Yeah, that does not seem optimal. I'll wait for a week if someone reports it to KDE, otherwise I'll report this myself.

foobat · 2024-03-09 11:19:04

You can try to switch to another sound theme (system setting -> themes and colors -> sound theme ). Plasma 6 introduced a new sound theme and it might be incompatible with your previous settings. You can also try to switch to another sound theme and then switch back, hopefully this might overwrite some incompatible settings.

kyngs · 2024-03-09 11:47:51

foobat wrote:

You can try to switch to another sound theme (system setting -> themes and colors -> sound theme ). Plasma 6 introduced a new sound theme and it might be incompatible with your previous settings. You can also try to switch to another sound theme and then switch back, hopefully this might overwrite some incompatible settings.

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately, it did not work. Only disabling the notification sounds has any effect.

kyngs · 2024-03-11 08:24:14

This is really weird, I originally thought this is related to Qt, however, some GTK applications (such as Qalculate) exhibit the same behavior...

ginger · 2024-05-25 20:45:25

I also found that annoying (: The solution that worked for me was to make a customized theme by copying the original and deleting the specific sounds for maximize/minimize from it (in Oxygen theme the sounds for minimize & maximize are "window-maximized.ogg" & "window-minimized.ogg").
You can copy the theme you're using from /usr/share/sounds to ~/.local/share/sounds. Make sure you rename the theme's directory to a different name (the new customized theme name) and edit the index.theme file in it according to the name you chose.

Awebb · 2024-06-15 20:03:33

ginger wrote:

I also found that annoying (: The solution that worked for me was to make a customized theme by copying the original and deleting the specific sounds for maximize/minimize from it (in Oxygen theme the sounds for minimize & maximize are "window-maximized.ogg" & "window-minimized.ogg").
You can copy the theme you're using from /usr/share/sounds to ~/.local/share/sounds. Make sure you rename the theme's directory to a different name (the new customized theme name) and edit the index.theme file in it according to the name you chose.

This didn't work for me for some reason. It somehow manages to fall back to the default sounds, if those files aren't present.

seth · 2024-06-15 20:13:00

ffmpeg -f lavfi -t 1 -i anullsrc=channel_layout=stereo:sample_rate=48000 -y /tmp/silence.ogg

ginger · 2024-06-15 20:50:32

Awebb wrote:

ginger wrote:
I also found that annoying (: The solution that worked for me was to make a customized theme by copying the original and deleting the specific sounds for maximize/minimize from it (in Oxygen theme the sounds for minimize & maximize are "window-maximized.ogg" & "window-minimized.ogg").
You can copy the theme you're using from /usr/share/sounds to ~/.local/share/sounds. Make sure you rename the theme's directory to a different name (the new customized theme name) and edit the index.theme file in it according to the name you chose.
This didn't work for me for some reason. It somehow manages to fall back to the default sounds, if those files aren't present.

Did you reboot after applying the settings? It was necessary in my case... (:

Awebb · 2024-06-17 18:59:13

ginger wrote:

Did you reboot after applying the settings? It was necessary in my case... (:

Yes, that did it. Madness.

By the way: It doesn't happen anymore. Unsatisfied with either solution I gave up and today the problem was gone.

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#1 2024-03-08 16:04:12

After KDE 6, firefox/thunderbird has sound effects on min/max/close

#2 2024-03-08 19:29:10

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