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Rapti

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Registered: 2016-03-05

Posts: 8

Notifications in KDE Plasma are doing weird things

Hello!

During the last weeks, my notification system in KDE Plasma seems to be messed up. Almost every time an application tries to display a desktop notification (but not always), such as Spotify when starting to play a new song, I hear a ping sound and an error message is posted to all terminals that I currently have opened. It looks somewhat like this:

Broadcast message from systemd-journald@leonslaptop (Sat 2016-03-05 20:11:07 CET):

daemon/loader[18906]: .:0: enable module screensaver failed: name org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver already taken, cost 1.451ms

With the date, process ID and cost duration always being different of course.

However, the notification is still displayed, but it looks different from what it did before I started getting the issue:

http://share.raptilic.us/2016-03-05_20-18-53.png

When the problem doesn't occur (which happens sometimes and I don't know why), notifications look like this: http://share.raptilic.us/2016-03-06_00-08-28.png

Also, and this is really annoying, it will sometimes mute my Spotify audio output and change my keyboard layout to English (I normally use the German layout). Sometimes It does both, sometimes nothing, sometimes just one of those two things, but when they happen, I'll have to go to the system settings and undo these changes. For Spotify, I need to click the mute icon twice in the Pulse Audio settings, and for the keyboard issue, I have to go to the keyboard settings, click some random radio button to make the Apply button clickable and then click it without actually having changed anything.

http://share.raptilic.us/2016-03-05_20-11-58.png

I'm using Arch Linux x86_64 with KDE Plasma 5.5.5.2-1. All packages are up to date.

Last edited by Rapti (2016-03-05 23:17:45)

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