For some reason after upgrading to Plasma 6.3.0, I keep hearing a button click feedback noise on specific application (so far includes: Lutris, Visual Studio Code dialogs), which for me is kind of an annoying sound so I want to get rid of it while keeping other system sounds enabled.
Disable notification sounds in KDE System Settings -> Colors & Themes -> System Sound, the noises is gonealong with basically all other system noises, which probably indicates that it’s coming from the system sound pack that I use (Ocean KDE Plasma), but I have no idea why it only plays on some specific application.
I tried looking through on /usr/share/sounds/ocean, this file interests me: /usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/button-pressed.oga but VLC couldn’t open that file at all, and deleting the file (+ relogin to desktop) doesn’t make the sound effect dissapear.
And just in case it’s relevant, could you please provide your basic system information from the Info Center app? The Copy Details button is the easiest way to get that ready to paste in:
Hello, I tried to check if it’s associated with “System Notifications” by:
Listening to every entry of system notifications for similar sound, there aren’t any similar sounds.
Unchecking “Play a sound” on every entry of system notifications and then checking if the button pop is still there (unfortunately it is).
So probably not related to System Notifications, but I’m not fully sure because it sounds like it is a system notification chime although not listed there at all.
I tried disabling the system bell (while still keeping all system notifications disabled), but the button pop sound is still there.
Here is my system information:
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.2-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 12.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Product Name: B550M Pro4
And output of fastfetch just for good measure:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: B550M Pro4
Kernel: Linux 6.13.2-zen1-1-zen
Uptime: 7 hours, 7 mins
Packages: 1352 (pacman)
Shell: fish 3.7.1
Display (LG FULL HD): 1920x1080 @ 75 Hz in 22" [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.0
WM: KWin (X11)
WM Theme: Vivid-Dark-Aurorae-6
Theme: Breeze (VividCyanDarkColorscheme) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3/4]
Icons: Vivid-Dark-Icons [Qt], Vivid-Dark-Icons [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Liberation Sans (13pt) [Qt], Liberation Sans (13pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 24.12.2
Terminal Font: Source Code Pro (14pt)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G (12) @ 3.90 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series [Integrated]
Memory: 5.78 GiB / 12.53 GiB (46%)
Swap: 1.55 GiB / 25.07 GiB (6%)
Disk (/): 20.31 GiB / 39.08 GiB (52%) - ext4
Disk (/home): 132.51 GiB / 183.47 GiB (72%) - ext4
Disk (/var): 7.41 GiB / 9.75 GiB (76%) - ext4
Local IP (enp3s0): 192.168.255.2/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
Hmm - in case it’s relevant, how are the applications where that’s happening installed - distribution repository, Flatpak, etc.? Have any others popped up other than Lutris or VS Code?
Lutris is installed via the package manager (pacman) directly without Flatpak, Visual Studio Code I use is the .appimage version so no installation needed.
As for other apps, I recently also found out the same noise is happening on Pinta’s file picker and Mousepad save dialog, both of which are GTK applications.
I tried to check gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds and couldn’t find how to check for that boolean value yet, while looking for it though I found gtk-enable-event-sounds=1 on ~/.gtkrc-2.0 which I tried to set to 0 and relogin to the desktop, nothing changed the sound is still there.
How could I check for the gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds value ? I found something on Ask Ubuntu related to that, but I’m not sure I want to install gnome-control-center…
That .gtkrc-2.0 file would be for GTK2 applications - it might be worth checking out GTK - ArchWiki, but I’d guess the right place would be in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, or the gtk-4.0 equivalent?
Although I did not find any key related to gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds, I made one and set the value to false, re-logged in to desktop and all the annoying sounds are gone!
Just for everyone else is trying to get rid of the input feedback, here is a copy of my settings.ini across ~/.config/gtk-4.0/, ~/.config/gtk-3.0/, and ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
[Settings]
... other stuff here ...
gtk-enable-event-sounds=false
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=false
... other stuff here ...
Changing just ~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini fixed it already, but I assume that there may be some apps that is still on GTK 3 or even 2, so I just add the same lines on all.
Thank you!!
These turned on seemingly out of nowhere sometime in the last week and have been driving me crazy.
Editing the settings.ini files for gtk-3 and 4 solved the issue for me as well.
This happened to me too. Extra annoying that it was beeping when I paused / unpaused a music app!
To fix it I had to check and then uncheck “Enable notification sounds” in KDE System Settings -> Colors & Themes -> System Sound (hitting Apply after each change). This checkbox appeared unchecked already, but I assume it was actually out of sync with some config file, and checking and unchecking again fixed it.
