On Monday, 16 January 2017 17:26:58 CET solitone wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on stretch, and use KDE plasma desktop. Whenever I get a notification, > the Built-in Audio Analog Stereo volume jumps to 100%, irrespective of the > volume level I previously set (e.g. 50%). This means that the notification > sound is louder than I'd like. Besides, also all other later sounds are too > loud. As a consequence, I need to lower again the volume manually, but at > the next notification I have the same issue. If the Built-in Audio Analog > Stereo output is muted, it stays muted even when notifications occur, but > obviously this is just a workaound to avoid those loud sounds, not a real > solution--I'd rather keep volume at 50% or something.
Try to disable flat-volumes in pulseaudio. See for example the discussion here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265267 -- Luigi

