J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> On 2018-11-18 11:36:59 Dave Lers wrote:
>> J Leslie Turriff wrote:
>> > On 2018-11-16 13:49:25 deloptes wrote:
>> >> Nicolas Bercher wrote:
>> >> > Where should I tell it not to emit any event sound
>> >>
>> >> Control Center -> Multimedia - Sound system
>> >
>> > I think rather it is in Control Center -> Multimedia ->
>> > Notifications.  There
>> > is a selector at the top of the pane for various applications; one
>> > has to change the settings for each one.
>>
>> The problem with deselecting specific sound events is that, while
>> the
>> event sound isn't played, the sound system still starts - there's
>> white noise for the event instead of a sound.
>>
>> That had been bugging me for some time so I just tried disabling the
>> sound system. I appears that disabling the sound system is TDE sound
>> event specific, it doesn't affect multimedia playback and solves the
>> white noise issue.
>
> Hmm.  I've had trouble with my audio setup with every installation of
> OpenSuSE (whose audio support is not good), but it's always been
> because of the distro, not the desktop.  I've never had a white-noise
> problem.

My hardware is likely to blame for the audio clue that the sound
system still gets triggered when sound is disabled for a particular
event. The fact that it happens would seem to be a TDE bug.