Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote > 'Twas brillig, and Ozan ?a?layan at 16/07/09 06:49 did gyre and gimble: > > Malte Gell wrote On 16-07-2009 08:09: > >> Hello, > >> > >> i use pulse 0.9.14 with KDE 4.3. In the Phonon setting of KDE I set > >> pulseaudio as the top device for playback. > >> > >> Ok, and in pavucontrol I've set system sounds to 50% loudness. But > >> system sound is still much louder than e.g. MP3 playback which has 85% > >> loudness! How can that be? Is Phonon broken and does not use pulse? > > > > It's possible that the system sounds widget in pavucontrol is not > > working at all if the distribution you're using isn't using libcanberra > > for playing the event sounds which should be the case with all the major > > KDE4 distributions around. > > I suspect this is indeed the case. The KDE system sounds are not tied in > to the pulse ones. I think there is a little hack you can do for this > tho' (I've not tested): > > Write a small script called kdepulsenotify.sh and put it somewhere, > > In the script do: > > #!/bin/bash > export PULSE_PROP_media.role="event" > exec paplay "$1" > > Make your script executable. > > In systemsettings go to: > > Notifications -> Player Settings -> Use External Player > enter the path to your script. Hey, that's a nice and short hack! Works just fine! Regards Malte
