KDE system notifications won't play !

acanton · 06-25-2005, 03:04 PM

I screwed something up and the KDE system notifications won't play at all. Other sounds (CD, XMMS, etc.) play find, but I don't get any of the KDE sounds (start-up 'music', error sounds, etc.).

They work fine when booted to the CD 3.0. What file can I copy from there to reset this thing on the HD?

Help.

acanton · 06-25-2005, 03:32 PM

Get this. I fixed it by setting "User External Player" to 'artsplay'.

Found this 'fix' on Google.

Looks like for some reason the 'automatic' setting of alsa or my sound card or whatever does not work.

Any idea what is going on? I don't have to use this when booted to Mepis CD. I borked something in KDE and this seems to 'fix' it.

Al

acanton · 06-25-2005, 04:21 PM

Bottom line, KDE has a bug such that something (not sure what) can change the file

~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc

It should look like:

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=true
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=true

But something in KDE's system can turn these to false and that's the end of the game. Set it back to the above and restart the session and all is well.

Al

lefty.crupps · 07-02-2005, 03:24 AM

crazibri (in this thread, post number seven

To fix your sound effects in KDE3.4, do this:

go to /opt/kde3/bin as root and edit "startkde" (kwrite should work fine)

find this line

LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit

Now change it to look like this:

LD_BIND_NOW=true
kdeinit +kcminit +knotify

(yes now its 2 lines)

restart your computer and your sound notifications should be back
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and that worked for my SuSE 9.2 install. Might work for you too...

Good luck, let us know!

jameshofmann · 03-23-2006, 10:18 AM

Same problem: No notification, continuous rewriting of knotifyrc. Kde even complained on startup that it was unable to write knotifyrc when I took away write permission.

Same solution: Change the lines in startkde as suggested.

Same results: Worked, and no bad side effects noted so far. I am using kde 3.3.2 from the Debian sarge distribution.

Thanks for the help,
James Hofmann