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  Disable knotify sounds using xfce Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2016-04-02 10:40 +0200
    Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> - 2016-04-04 20:50 +0200
      Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2016-04-05 09:30 +0200
        Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 13:40 +0200
          Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2016-04-06 23:20 +0200
            Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> - 2016-04-09 15:20 +0200
              Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 17:30 +0200

#166189 — Disable knotify sounds using xfce

Hello all,

I use Xfce, but I also like having a few KDE apps installed (namely, 
k3b, konquest and a few others, but the problem here pertains to knotify 
in general). I haven't the full KDE desktop and I don't want it. I'm on 
a up-to-date stretch/sid amd64. When playing konquest, for example, each 
time a dialog pops up, knotify plays a sound regardless of my sound 
volume settings (worse, it raises the sound volume).

There used to be a systemsettings command I could run from terminal to 
adjust those KDE settings, but now the command is systemsettings5 and 
the window it shows does not include icons to manage sound settings 
anymore. It only contains three icons: shortcuts under Workspace section 
and Settings + Connectivity under Network section. Needless to say, they 
aren't what I need.

How do I tell KDE apps to avoid playing sounds on notifications?

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#166380

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On 04/02/2016 04:28 AM, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I use Xfce, but I also like having a few KDE apps installed (namely,
> k3b, konquest and a few others, but the problem here pertains to knotify
> in general). I haven't the full KDE desktop and I don't want it. I'm on
> a up-to-date stretch/sid amd64. When playing konquest, for example, each
> time a dialog pops up, knotify plays a sound regardless of my sound
> volume settings (worse, it raises the sound volume).

...

> How do I tell KDE apps to avoid playing sounds on notifications?

Running xfce on jessie, I solved that annoyance by moving the offending
sound file out of the way.  In my case,
/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Warning.ogg would blast from the speakers when
akregator (RSS reader) came across an expired site certificate.

You could do something similar, or change permissions, for the whole kde
sound file directory.  A more proper method may exist, but simple works
fine.

Regards,
Ralph

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#166399

Il 04/04/2016 20:44, Ralph Katz ha scritto:
> You could do something similar, or change permissions, for the whole 
> kde sound file directory. A more proper method may exist, but simple 
> works fine.

Thanks for the suggestion, a

# chmod o-r /usr/share/sounds/KDE*

worked on stretch/sid too. Since this seems to be a needed and missing 
feature, I've opened a whishlist bug upstream:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361400

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#166405

On 2016-04-05, Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> wrote:
>
>
> Il 04/04/2016 20:44, Ralph Katz ha scritto:
>> You could do something similar, or change permissions, for the whole 
>> kde sound file directory. A more proper method may exist, but simple 
>> works fine.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, a
>
> # chmod o-r /usr/share/sounds/KDE*
>
> worked on stretch/sid too. Since this seems to be a needed and missing 
> feature, I've opened a whishlist bug upstream:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361400

I'm not using KDE at the moment, but my experience of it is that all KDE
applications store their configuration in text files. Is there a
knotifyrc file somewhere on your system? See the "second way" in the
following link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2174789

--

Liam

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#166488

Il 05/04/2016 13:34, Liam O'Toole ha scritto:
> I'm not using KDE at the moment, but my experience of it is that all 
> KDE applications store their configuration in text files. Is there a 
> knotifyrc file somewhere on your system? See the "second way" in the 
> following link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2174789

No, there is no such file in my system. There was once with KDE 4 for 
sure, because I have found that file in a old backup copy of a different 
system, but now there isn't anymore.

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On 04/06/2016 05:13 PM, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> 
> Il 05/04/2016 13:34, Liam O'Toole ha scritto:
>> I'm not using KDE at the moment, but my experience of it is that all
>> KDE applications store their configuration in text files. Is there a
>> knotifyrc file somewhere on your system? See the "second way" in the
>> following link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2174789
> 
> No, there is no such file in my system. There was once with KDE 4 for
> sure, because I have found that file in a old backup copy of a different
> system, but now there isn't anymore.

Just for the archives, my jessie system has knotifyrc installed by
libknotifyconfig4 as a dependency of akregator (RSS reader):

ralph@spike2 ~$ locate knotifyrc
/home/ralph/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc
ralph@spike2 ~$ cat .kde/share/config/knotifyrc
[StartProgress]
Arts Init=false
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=false
ralph@spike2 ~$

Regards,
Ralph

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#166557

On 4/9/16, Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> wrote:
> On 04/06/2016 05:13 PM, Lucio Crusca wrote:
>>
>> Il 05/04/2016 13:34, Liam O'Toole ha scritto:
>>> I'm not using KDE at the moment, but my experience of it is that all
>>> KDE applications store their configuration in text files. Is there a
>>> knotifyrc file somewhere on your system? See the "second way" in the
>>> following link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2174789
>>
>> No, there is no such file in my system. There was once with KDE 4 for
>> sure, because I have found that file in a old backup copy of a different
>> system, but now there isn't anymore.
>
> Just for the archives, my jessie system has knotifyrc installed by
> libknotifyconfig4 as a dependency of akregator (RSS reader):
>
> ralph@spike2 ~$ locate knotifyrc
> /home/ralph/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc
> ralph@spike2 ~$ cat .kde/share/config/knotifyrc
> [StartProgress]
> Arts Init=false
> KNotify Init=true
> Use Arts=false
> ralph@spike2 ~$


What about... aka would there be any harm in... Lucio adding this file
back in just for kicks and giggles to see if it works? I remember
doing that consistently for I THINK it was kppprc while living via
Live DVDs (in Knoppix?).

The acknowledged difference between his usage and mine is that I THINK
I remember that kppp would create its own file that I replaced after
each reboot where Lucio's instance is not generating that file at all.
One potential inference then might be that knotify had obsoleted it...
or something. I can't see where it would do so because it's about
local user setting *_CHOICES_* but still... :)

Just thinking out loud... again. :)

Cindy :)

-- 
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA

* runs with plastic sporks *

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