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Dieter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 140

KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

Hello,

I did a fresh arch (32 bit) installation yesterday with KDE 4.7.4.
I use systemd, Arch is installed on a SSD (but that shouldn't matter).

After starting, I missed the KDE start sound.
I looked in the forum and found some hints that perhaps adding the path to the sound files in settings -> system notification -> sound can help.

But the line with the basic KDE notification is not there any more in the notifications dialog ...
I only see lines for power management, mail, etc - but not for the basic KDE notifications where startup and shutdown were located in previous installations.

There is no full KDE install on my PC, only the KDE meta packages base, multimedia, graphics and utils.

How can I re-enable the standard KDE system notifications?
Do I miss a package besides the meta packages listed above?

Testing the sound with settings -> multimedia works fine (and plays the KDE startup sound ...)

Last edited by Dieter (2011-12-27 15:30:08)

birdflesh

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From: Greece

Registered: 2010-08-04

Posts: 97

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

This is a regression introduced in qt 4.8. Check the links below for more info:
https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-22382
http://bugs.kde.org/285028
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749213

A proposed patch from fedora:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p … e0;hb=HEAD

You may want to file a bug report against the arch linux qt package includng this information.

Axanon

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From: Toronto

Registered: 2010-06-12

Posts: 53

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

To get your system sounds back in KDE, you need to go to the notification settings and manually add /usr/share/sound/ (iirc) before each of the .ogg filenames.

Dieter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 140

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

But I can't find the right notification settings - there are shown (translated from my German KDE):
- power management
- screen ruler
- screen saver
- wallet
- desktop search
- service for local system messages (to be sent with wall or write)
- digikam
- print applet
- email program
- remote control

But where are the notification settings for startup / shutdown etc.?

Shark

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 686

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

Post the output of "pacman -Qsq kde".

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Dieter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 140

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

[root@Arch32 dieter]# pacman -Qsq kde

digikam
kde-agent
kde-l10n-de
kde-meta-kdebase
kde-meta-kdegraphics
kde-meta-kdemultimedia
kde-meta-kdeutils
kdebase-dolphin
kdebase-kdepasswd
kdebase-kdialog
kdebase-keditbookmarks
kdebase-kfind
kdebase-konq-plugins
kdebase-konqueror
kdebase-konsole
kdebase-kwrite
kdebase-lib
kdebase-plasma
kdebase-runtime
kdebase-workspace
kdebindings-python
kdeedu-marble
kdegraphics-gwenview
kdegraphics-kamera
kdegraphics-kcolorchooser
kdegraphics-kgamma
kdegraphics-kolourpaint
kdegraphics-kruler
kdegraphics-ksaneplugin
kdegraphics-ksnapshot
kdegraphics-mobipocket
kdegraphics-okular
kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer
kdegraphics-svgpart
kdegraphics-thumbnailers
kdelibs
kdemultimedia-dragonplayer
kdemultimedia-ffmpegthumbs
kdemultimedia-juk
kdemultimedia-kioslave
kdemultimedia-kmix
kdemultimedia-kscd
kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs
kdepim-runtime
kdepimlibs
kdeutils-ark
kdeutils-filelight
kdeutils-kcalc
kdeutils-kcharselect
kdeutils-kdf
kdeutils-kfloppy
kdeutils-kgpg
kdeutils-kremotecontrol
kdeutils-ktimer
kdeutils-kwallet
kdeutils-printer-applet
kdeutils-superkaramba
kdeutils-sweeper
libkipi
libreoffice-kde4
phonon
polkit-kde

Shark

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 686

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

Have you installed alsa or pulseaudio? Are you in audio group? Post the output of command "groups".

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Dieter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 140

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

dieter@Arch32 ~]$ pacman -Qsq alsa
alsa-lib
[dieter@Arch32 ~]$ pacman -Qsq pulseaudio
[dieter@Arch32 ~]$ 
[dieter@Arch32 ~]$ groups
video audio optical scanner power users
[dieter@Arch32 ~]$ 

Dieter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 140

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

oops, I found the entries for the KDE notifications - I just had overseen the scroll bar

Bug report filed:
FS#27757 - [qt 4.8] KDE-sound / QUrl.toLocalFile returns nothing if given non-canonical path

Shark

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 686

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

Really don't know. I am new to kde. Is this problem reproduceable  on other account?

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birdflesh

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From: Greece

Registered: 2010-08-04

Posts: 97

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

Did the latest update of kdelibs fixed this for anyone? It didn't work for me.

gerald82

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From: The known universe

Registered: 2011-03-25

Posts: 83

Re: KDE: System notifications lost in settings dialog

To get your system sounds back in KDE, you need to go to the notification settings and manually add /usr/share/sound/ (iirc) before each of the .ogg filenames.

After installing the latest version of kdelibs (4.7.4-4) which appeared in the repos today or yesterday that should be obsolete.

http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … es/kdelibs
According to the change list the KNotify problem should be fixed.
However I have done the workaround witht he manually prepended path before installing that, so I can't confirm.