Notification - Plasma Workspace - Login

[MoonRise]

This is what Maui has by default. I didn't personally go and install those. Had they not, I would probably be wondering still why the sound was like it was.

[oshunluvr]

Yeah, what gstreamer packages do you have installed?

[MoonRise]

I take it you're still on the VLC Backend? One reason why I'm staying with Maui as I don't know if I could find GStreamer.

[oshunluvr]

My devices keep dropping out of multimedia completely. They work for a bit, then disappear.

[MoonRise]

Well, either way I'm glad as my sound works as it should now.

[dequire]

VLC was the prefered as was under KDE Neon (KDE Neon did not list GSTREAMER).

Here on my newly-installed Neon system, I only have the VLC backend as well. Which to me is not an issue, but it is strange that the GStreamer backend is not listed as a default option in Neon, since installing the restricted packages during the initial installation DOES install the basic GStreamer restricted packages. However, it does not install phonon-backend-gstreamer and friends. My guess is that Maui adds these other packages back in, thus enabling them to appear in your audio back-end tab in system settings.

[MoonRise]

Well, this was a hard decision to do this but replaced KDE Neon with Maui to see how that progressed soundwise per this thread.

So, still did not work at first but went back to Systems Settings --> Audio --> Audio --> Backend. Here, Maui list VLC and GSTREAMER. VLC was the prefered as was under KDE Neon (KDE Neon did not list GSTREAMER). So I pushed GSTREAMER as the prefered and Ta-Da! Login sound now works.

So, anyone who has this issue under KDE Neon, this might help to install. Don't know if KDE Neon has that in their Repos as I can't really check now. At least Maui is based on KDE Neon so not a total wash!

[MoonRise]

Thanks! I'll look through though I can't really see what the issue is as I've never really had this issue before.

[Snowhog]

Look at AlsaInfo and Help To Debug and https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu...uestion/295019 comment #3.

[MoonRise]

Standard questions: Is volume muted or otherwise turned way down?

Nope and Nope.

Wonder how I can test the other Notifications to see if they are working to see if it is the whole Notification system.

[GreyGeek]

I turned on my login sound to see if it works. It does. The only problem is that after I enter my password on the login screen it is replaced by the KDE logo in the center of a blue screen with a progress bar along the bottom of the logo. When the progress bar is at about 90% the login music has completed playing. From the time I hit the button after entering my password, to the moment I have a usable desktop, the desktop "up and ready" music finishes playing after 60-70% of that time has past. IOW, when it finishes playing the desktop has not yet appeared!

[Snowhog]

Standard questions: Is volume muted or otherwise turned way down?

[MoonRise]

Thought it might be something with Pulse and installed PAVUCONTROL and checked to make sure all is OK there. Still nothing on login. Weird and no errors to even try to determine why.

[MoonRise]

Either default or my own doesn't play on login.

[life0riley]

It is working for me in here in Neon.

Did you just check the box to play and leave the default sound in there?