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romeluc

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Registered: 2014-12-03

Posts: 12

Plasma 5 system settings not taking effect for notification sounds

Hello,

I was very annoyed by all the notification sounds that play at loud volume even though they are disabled in kmix. One thing I noticed was that if vlc is playing and I do something to trigger a notification sound, then rather than playing the notification it will lower the volume of vlc. I tried manually disabling only the broken battery event sound, and when I restarted my computer this did work. So, next I manually disabled all the other notifications, however, when I wanted to click apply, the button was greyed out. When I exit system settings and comeback, the sounds are disabled for each event but these changes are not actually taking effect when I do something to cause an event. I tried to change some settings back hoping the settings manager will somehow refresh and show the actual settings in effect. That didn't work.

The annoying sounds are not going away. I want the settings manager to show the actual settings in effect so that I can change them and click apply.

If I can't do that, then I am happy to delete just the event notification configuration file and start over. But I can't find it. I saw some files with notifyrc extension in .config/ but they look like only blank templates and do not reflect actual settings either.

As a last resort, I am thinking of deleting all the .ogg files for the sounds.

Please, any suggestions.

jeroenvlek

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From: The Hague

Registered: 2014-09-16

Posts: 16

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Re: Plasma 5 system settings not taking effect for notification sounds

I have the exact same issue. It seems to be a bug.