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On November 23, 2018 8:12:34 PM Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday, 23 November 2018 17:44:00 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> Hello list, |
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>> Over the last few days I've trimmed my plasma setup - to slightly below the |
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>> minimum, by which I mean that sound notification has stopped working. I can |
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>> hear streamed radio, but the plasma control panel doesn't show any devices |
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>> so I don't hear notifications. |
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>> I've scanned the list of packages I removed but I can't see a likely |
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>> suspect, and google just returns results about having no sound at all, |
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>> which is not my case. |
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>> Can anyone tell me which plasma module I need to install to hear |
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>> notifications again? |
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>> Again, the hardware and low-level drivers are fine: it's just plasma that's |
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>> missing a component. |
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> I have the kde-plasma/plasma-meta installed here, although I do not run the |
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> plasma desktop. It has the USE flag pulseaudio enabled, which I suspect is |
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> needed to get things like desktop notifications working: |
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> [+ C ] pulseaudio |
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> kde-plasma/plasma-meta: Install Plasma applet for PulseAudio volume |
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> management |
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> [+ ] (5) 5.13.5 [gentoo] |
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> [+ ] (5) 5.14.3-r1 [gentoo] |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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For what it's worth, I don't have PulseAudio at all on my system and plasma |
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still does audible notifications. I think Dale may be closer to the |
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solution with the suggestion about kmix. |