[pulseaudio-discuss] system sounds on KDE 4.3 too loud

[Malte Gell]

Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote

> 'Twas brillig, and Ozan Çağlayan 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