On accounts that have existed since first installation, No sound occurs on notification. No kde startup sound. System Settings/applications and system notifications/Manage notifications/ "play a sound" test button results in no sounds.

On these same accounts that fail: amarok works. paplay works. System Settings/Multimedia/Phonon/Test works!

However, if I create a new account, then all sound works including notifications and system startup for that new account!

So it has to be in per account System Settings or in some of the wierd file in the ~/.local or ~/.config trees.

But which? How do I fix these accounts?

Which Phonon backend do you use currently? Try changing between two backends to see if anything is affected. Also, try removing the sound hardware cache, located at /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/libphonon/hardwaredatabase

No effect removing that file.
I have tried both Gstreamer and Xine same result.
also tried changing out ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc

No effect.

Does removing all ~/.kde4/share/config/*.notifyrc and ~/.kde4/share/config/phonondevicesrc files have any effect?

removeing these files did not help.

~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc
~/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc

Did you remove any files ending with .notifyrc as well from ~/.kde4/share/config?
Also, ensure you restart knotify after making these changes.

Code: Select all

kquitapp knotify

>Did you remove any files ending with .notifyrc as well from ~/.kde4/share/config?
>Also, ensure you restart knotify after making these changes.

There were no such files. I restarted it by logging off and loging on again.

Try removing the Phonon configuration, which will cause it to be rebuilt. Ensure that no KDE processes are running when this is done.

Code: Select all

rm $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/phonondevicesrc

I fixed it. gave myself the audio, pulse, and pulse-access groups. Then ran applications/multi-media/Volume control/Playback/ and increased the system sound slider! Sound works now!

Is there a notification sound you can have play every time plasma brings up a new application?

Open System Settings > Common Appearance & Behaviour > Application and System Notifications > Manage Notifications. Change the Event source dropdown to "KWin Window Manager". Both "New Window" and "Window Unminimize" notifications are available, you simply have to enable them and assign them notification sounds.