I need a life. Replying to myself hehe. This patch should have been put in 3 years ago lol. Maybe to it, you should add KConfig("knotifyrc", DO NOT TOUCH UNLESS I SAY SO); hahaha http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2005/06/msg00118.html Cheers, Christopher Martin --- kde.orig/kcontrol/arts/arts.cpp +++ kde.patched/kcontrol/arts/arts.cpp @@ -383,6 +383,12 @@ delete midiConfig; + KConfig *knotifyConfig = new KConfig( "knotifyrc", false ); + knotifyConfig->setGroup( "StartProgress" ); + knotifyConfig->writeEntry( "Arts Init", startServer->isChecked()); + knotifyConfig->writeEntry( "Use Arts", startServer->isChecked()); + delete knotifyConfig; + config->sync(); } Ryan wrote: >Test. (Forgot to add this list to Text only, and my previous reply was >in html) > >Ryan wrote: > > > >>Hmm, maybe I wasnt clear enough? The point I was making was that the >>sound center WORKED, but the system notifications did NOT. If you go >>to the sound center in the KDE control panel, and clicked on Test, it >>would work. But if you tried ANY System Notification sound, it would >>NOT work in the scenerio I mentioned. This is an extremly common >>problem, and I am having a hard time believing that the KDE team just >>doesnt know about this. I've never met a single person that has NOT >>had this problem. Unless of coarse they come from a mailing list >>where there really arent all that many "regular joes". >> >>John wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi >>>Not sure what you are trying to do but my mail notification has worked for >>>years. I turned others off as they irritated me. Only lost sound when I did a >>>partial lib upgrade. Not a knotify problem. I had to enable the open sound >>>system. No idea why. >>>I don't know much about the subject but the graphical way of setting it up is >>>via KDE's control centre, sound and multimedia, system notifications. Many >>>things can be done on a user basis by any user so root ownership etc makes no >>>sense at all. >>>This suggests that all controls are kept on a user basis so the system might >>>be writing what ever that is each time it runs. >>> >>>Regards >>>John >>> >>> >>>On Tuesday 20 December 2005 19:00, Ryan wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I have this problem with KNotify with ANY distro that I install with any >>>>version of KDE. KNotify ALWAYS DISABLES ITSELF. It's really been >>>>pissin me off the last few days because it's been turning my own >>>>~/.kde/share/knotifyrc file off even when the sound system ISNT crashed >>>>or down. The only way to stop it is to chown the file to root, or >>>>change the permisions to be read only, but that is WRONG I dont care who >>>>says it's the "correct" way to fix it, it just plain shouldnt be turning >>>>things false without at least ASKING you to let it change to false. >>>>This has really been a nightmare for anyone that I've ever tried to get >>>>to use Linux because every single day (it never fails, it always >>>>happens), they call me and ask how to get sound running because it just >>>>suddenly stopped working. Every time it's always the KnotifyRC that is >>>>the problem and I've just about had it myself. >>>> >>>>My question, is there ANY possible way to stop this from happening other >>>>than changing the permissions of the file. Here's an example of what I >>>>did to test it today on my own machine. >>>> >>>>I woke up this mornin, starting messing with some stuff in Konsole and >>>>noticed the damn beeps were off yet AGAIN. So as usual, I opened the >>>>knotifyrc file and changed: >>>> >>>>[StartProgress] >>>>Arts Init=false >>>>KNotify Init=true >>>>Use Arts=false >>>> >>>>to >>>> >>>>[StartProgress] >>>>Arts Init=true >>>>KNotify Init=true >>>>Use Arts=true >>>> >>>>I then tested the sound in Konsole, and sure enough, there was none. >>>>So, what do I do? Open knotify AGAIN and low and behold, its set to >>>>false!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, I set it again thinking maybe I didnt >>>>save the file. Repeat, and whatya know, its False again!. So this >>>>time, I get pissed and chown it to root, use root to change the file, >>>>test the sound again, and guess what happens. I get this window from >>>>KNotify saying that it cant write to the knotifyrc file. So I say to >>>>myself GOOD YOU LOUSY NO GOOD PIECE OF *****, you shouldnt be writting >>>>to it! Then, right after I close that window, I HEARD THE KONSOLE >>>>SYSTEM NOTIFICATION SOUND!! I'm like OMG >>>>WTF$%^*@#*$%^&*^#$%%^#@!T$%&^T&^%& >>>> >>>>Now, why in the world is Knotify turning its self off when I just proved >>>>to it that that sound WAS on? Is there a bug about this anywhere on the >>>>KDE site? Because if there isnt, there should be. It's been like this >>>>for me from version 3.0 to 3.5 and it's never once been fixed in KDE. >>>>Is it just me and my clients, or does everyone else have this problem? >>>>And DO NOT tell me that the fix for it is to just change the >>>>permissions, that's the stupidest response ever. If you do that, then >>>>every time you login to KDE, you'll be greeted with an error window, and >>>>when you are one of my clients, you dont like error windows because they >>>>are scary. There has to be an option somewhere where you can set it to >>>>NOT write to the file at all, or at least tell you that its going to do >>>>so and give you a chance to tell it that it's full of **** and doesnt >>>>know what its doing, and give you the chance to skip the write process. >>>> >>>>___________________________________________________ >>>>This message is from the kde mailing list. >>>>Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >>>>Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >>>>More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>___________________________________________________ >>>This message is from the kde mailing list. >>>Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >>>Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >>>More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>___________________________________________________ >>This message is from the kde mailing list. >>Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >>Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >>More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >> >> >> > >___________________________________________________ >This message is from the kde mailing list. >Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > > ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. 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