'Twas brillig, and Marko Doda at 03/03/11 09:10 did gyre and gimble: > its version 2.1.0.81 That's the version I have too, but like I say the notification sounds are properly tagged (see my "pacmd list-sink-inputs" output from the previous mail) FWIW, I do always comment out the x11-cork module and have encouraged distros to do the same and will likely do this upstream too, as it generally causes unexpected results. It's not so much to do with misbehaving applications tho', more the way it works (by simulating key presses) In the upcoming git master release, I'll support things properly in KDE with regards to pausing/resuming, but it wont solve your problem... Not sure what to advise, as, like I say, that's the same version of Skype I have and it's tagging the streams properly. What does your pacmd output look like when a notification is being played? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]