'During previous startup Knotify crashed...' - help with this problem needed.

[Blizz]

Hi all,

I am enjoying my PCLOS experience but this problem has now happened two or three times. Below is the full comment made after logging into the desktop:

'During the previous startup, KNotify crashed while instantiating KNotify. Do you want to try again or disable aRts sound output? If you choose to disable aRts output now, you can re-enable it later or select an alternate sound player in the System Notifications control panel.'

I just click on the try again button and all is well. So what am I being notified about here? I've followed the instructions on that notification but can't find alternate sound players or indeed the aRts one.

What do I need to do here? Should I disable aRts sound output? How do I enbable another sound player?

[muungwana]

you can disable it .. nobody is using it .. you wont miss anything ..all applications that produces sound have more than one sound output system, go to its config section and select ALSA instead of arts if it complains

[Blizz]

Thanks for that, will disable it next time it appears and see how things go.

[Blizz]

I disabled aRts as it crashed on startup twice but now I've lost sound on startup, you know, the PCLOS music on log in. How do I get that back?  System Notifications>Player Settings?

Okay, worked that out to be the issue if I want KDE sound back. Just go to Player Settings and select KDE sound.

If I want some other sound player for startup sounds, is it: /usr/bin/alsamixer

[GOTHBITES]

was this ever resolved for you  just curious