[opensuse-kde] Two gripes with KDE under openSuSE 11.4
Hi fellow KDE users; Sent to both lists for wider consideration. I installed openSuSE 11.4 Milestone 6 a couple of days ago and have two gripes with the KDE desktop. This has KDE version 4.5.95 (RC2). 1) Upon starting, whether from cold boot or restart, the "Mail Notification Properties" popup appears. I've searched through "Configure Desktop" but haven't been able to find how to turn it off. I don't use the KDE mail program (kmail) and don't want to be notified about new messages. How can I turn this annoyance off? 2) Is there a way (as in Winblows) to turn the sound off for ALL notifications without having to turn off every single "play sound" button on every single program, EASILY at a single click? Winblows at least allows one to click on "no sounds" for system notifications and still have audio available. 3) Guess I lied! Is there a way to turn off the VERY annoying buzzer sound that occurs in some programs when bad keyboard input occurs (such as trying to delete beyond/before a fill-in box? It annoys my wife when she's sleeping and I'm working at the keyboard. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSuSE 11.3 x86_64 openSUSE 11.4M6 x86_64 KDE 4.4.4, FF 3.6.8 KDE 4.5.95, FF 4.0 Beta claws-mail 3.7.8 claws-mail 3.7.8 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Thomas Taylor <linxt@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi fellow KDE users;
Sent to both lists for wider consideration.
I installed openSuSE 11.4 Milestone 6 a couple of days ago and have two gripes with the KDE desktop. This has KDE version 4.5.95 (RC2).
1) Upon starting, whether from cold boot or restart, the "Mail Notification Properties" popup appears. I've searched through "Configure Desktop" but haven't been able to find how to turn it off. I don't use the KDE mail program (kmail) and don't want to be notified about new messages. How can I turn this annoyance off?
I haven't seen this. Can't you just uninstall kmail if you don't use it?
2) Is there a way (as in Winblows) to turn the sound off for ALL notifications without having to turn off every single "play sound" button on every single program, EASILY at a single click? Winblows at least allows one to click on "no sounds" for system notifications and still have audio available.
Set the notifications volume to zero?
3) Guess I lied! Is there a way to turn off the VERY annoying buzzer sound that occurs in some programs when bad keyboard input occurs (such as trying to delete beyond/before a fill-in box? It annoys my wife when she's sleeping and I'm working at the keyboard.
I personally don't have this. It is probably one of the entries in "KDE Workspace" in the notifications. In that, I have all the "Text completion" sounds off, you can try doing the same. You also want to make sure the system bell volume is set to "0%" (you need to enable it if it isn't already, set it to 0%, then disable it). -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2011, 08:27:28 schrieb Thomas Taylor:
Hi fellow KDE users;
Sent to both lists for wider consideration.
I installed openSuSE 11.4 Milestone 6 a couple of days ago and have two gripes with the KDE desktop. This has KDE version 4.5.95 (RC2).
1) Upon starting, whether from cold boot or restart, the "Mail Notification Properties" popup appears. I've searched through "Configure Desktop" but haven't been able to find how to turn it off. I don't use the KDE mail program (kmail) and don't want to be notified about new messages. How can I turn this annoyance off?
2) Is there a way (as in Winblows) to turn the sound off for ALL notifications without having to turn off every single "play sound" button on every single program, EASILY at a single click? Winblows at least allows one to click on "no sounds" for system notifications and still have audio available.
In system settings -> notifications -> playback settings, just turn it off.
3) Guess I lied! Is there a way to turn off the VERY annoying buzzer sound that occurs in some programs when bad keyboard input occurs (such as trying to delete beyond/before a fill-in box? It annoys my wife when she's sleeping and I'm working at the keyboard.
This is nothing kde specific, check in alsa if you have a 'beep' output, mute that, besides also remove the pcspkr kernel module. (yeah that is really annoying)
Thanks, Tom
Cheers, Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Hi Karsten; On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:25:39 +0100 Karsten König <remur@gmx.net> wrote:
Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2011, 08:27:28 schrieb Thomas Taylor:
Hi fellow KDE users;
<<<<< snip >>>>>
2) Is there a way (as in Winblows) to turn the sound off for ALL notifications without having to turn off every single "play sound" button on every single program, EASILY at a single click? Winblows at least allows one to click on "no sounds" for system notifications and still have audio available.
In system settings -> notifications -> playback settings, just turn it off.
Hmm, never thought to look there, assumed playback was for gaming which I don't do. <<<<< snip >>>>> Thanks for the help. Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSuSE 11.3 x86_64 openSUSE 11.4M6 x86_64 KDE 4.4.4, FF 3.6.8 KDE 4.5.95, FF 4.0 Beta claws-mail 3.7.8 claws-mail 3.7.8 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 05 Feb 2011 08:27:28 Thomas Taylor wrote:
Hi fellow KDE users;
Sent to both lists for wider consideration.
I installed openSuSE 11.4 Milestone 6 a couple of days ago and have two gripes with the KDE desktop. This has KDE version 4.5.95 (RC2).
1) Upon starting, whether from cold boot or restart, the "Mail Notification Properties" popup appears. I've searched through "Configure Desktop" but haven't been able to find how to turn it off. I don't use the KDE mail program (kmail) and don't want to be notified about new messages. How can I turn this annoyance off?
It sounds like the popup is being restored by session management. Could you pastebin an screenshot of the popup? It seems very odd that KMail's notifications dialog would be session managed, so I'd like to know exactly what popup it is. If it is session management, a way to clear the stored session is to change the Session Management settings in System Settings to 'start with an empty session', login once, clearing any stored session, then go back to your previous session management setting.
2) Is there a way (as in Winblows) to turn the sound off for ALL notifications without having to turn off every single "play sound" button on every single program, EASILY at a single click? Winblows at least allows one to click on "no sounds" for system notifications and still have audio available.
As already suggested, set the notifications volume to 0. A 'disable all sound notifications' would be a good feature, suggest it at bugs.kde.org.
3) Guess I lied! Is there a way to turn off the VERY annoying buzzer sound that occurs in some programs when bad keyboard input occurs (such as trying to delete beyond/before a fill-in box? It annoys my wife when she's sleeping and I'm working at the keyboard.
Check that 'System Bell' is not enabled in System Settings. HTH Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:20:20 +0100 Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> wrote:
On Saturday 05 Feb 2011 08:27:28 Thomas Taylor wrote:
Hi fellow KDE users;
Sent to both lists for wider consideration.
I installed openSuSE 11.4 Milestone 6 a couple of days ago and have two gripes with the KDE desktop. This has KDE version 4.5.95 (RC2).
1) Upon starting, whether from cold boot or restart, the "Mail Notification Properties" popup appears. I've searched through "Configure Desktop" but haven't been able to find how to turn it off. I don't use the KDE mail program (kmail) and don't want to be notified about new messages. How can I turn this annoyance off?
It sounds like the popup is being restored by session management.
Could you pastebin an screenshot of the popup? It seems very odd that KMail's notifications dialog would be session managed, so I'd like to know exactly what popup it is.
Hi Will; Here is the image of the popup. http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4944/mailerror.png
If it is session management, a way to clear the stored session is to change the Session Management settings in System Settings to 'start with an empty session', login once, clearing any stored session, then go back to your previous session management setting.
Already set to start with empty session.
<<<<< snip >>>>> HTH
Will
Thanks for the reply. Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSuSE 11.3 x86_64 openSUSE 11.4M6 x86_64 KDE 4.4.4, FF 3.6.8 KDE 4.5.95, FF 4.0 Beta claws-mail 3.7.8 claws-mail 3.7.8 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Søndag den 6. februar 2011 10:01:43 skrev Thomas Taylor:
Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> wrote:
On Saturday 05 Feb 2011 08:27:28 Thomas Taylor wrote:
I installed openSuSE 11.4 Milestone 6 a couple of days ago and have two gripes with the KDE desktop. This has KDE version 4.5.95 (RC2).
1) Upon starting, whether from cold boot or restart, the "Mail Notification Properties" popup appears. I've searched through "Configure Desktop" but haven't been able to find how to turn it off. I don't use the KDE mail program (kmail) and don't want to be notified about new messages. How can I turn this annoyance off?
It sounds like the popup is being restored by session management.
Could you pastebin an screenshot of the popup? It seems very odd that KMail's notifications dialog would be session managed, so I'd like to know exactly what popup it is.
Hi Will; Here is the image of the popup. http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4944/mailerror.png
That is a screenshot of the GTK application "Mail Notification" - I think it's for Evolution or something. It has nothing to do with KMail or KDEPIM whatsoever, and it's pretty much impossible that it starts on its own in a KDE session on a fresh install... at least if it did, it'd be the worst bug in history. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, 10:01:43 schrieb Thomas Taylor:
Could you pastebin an screenshot of the popup? It seems very odd that KMail's notifications dialog would be session managed, so I'd like to know exactly what popup it is.
Hi Will; Here is the image of the popup. http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4944/mailerror.png
This looks like some gtk app to me and not kmail or KDE related. So you will have to find out why it is autostarted at all or simply remove it. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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