Unlike 12.3, I don’t get the welcoming music clip when booting had completed, nor a “twang” when shutting down. All other sound is present (Amarok, avidemux, Kaffeine etc) so I wondered if the missing bits are because of deliberate development policy or because I’m missing something.
Anyone else have this problem? I have pulse installed and audio built-in on the mobo. I tried it without pulse, but no difference.
KDE disabled this by default in the current version (4.11).
If you want to have it, go into “Configure Desktop”->“Application and System notifications” and configure it. The “Event Source” containing the login sound is “KDE Workspace”.
Aha - many thanks. I had a feeling it was something like that.
BTW, this is NOT at boot, but at the login in a desktop. In this case KDE. When you use anotherdesktop, that may even not be available amongst the "“features” of that desktop.
I say so, because not knowing the difference between system boot and desktop login may hamper your understanding of these sort of things seriously.
Thank you for your comment. I do understand the difference, but because I use autologin, the KDE part seems like part of the boot process 
One of the negative consequences of using autologin >:(
wolfi323 wrote:
> KDE disabled this by default in the current version (4.11).
>
> If you want to have it, go into “Configure Desktop”->“Application and
> System notifications” and configure it. The “Event Source” containing
> the login sound is “KDE Workspace”.
>
>
Did this, still no sound. Had to run pavucontrol and turn up the volume
on system sounds, then send them to the speakers.
Is that because KMix doesn’t have “System sounds” tab?
Mine doesn’t, but I haven’t enabled it in “Application and System notifications”.
Are you using PulseAudio?
This (System sounds tab in KMix) only shows up with PA…
The previous poster does obviously, otherwise pavucontrol wouldn’t have worked. But the volume for this was set to zero apparently.
Yes, I use as much default stuff as I can bear. Also P/A is fashionable. lol!
If I have to, I use Jack etc.
This (System sounds tab in KMix) only shows up with PA…
It used to appear, but so did the jingle. Thought it might be connected.
The previous poster does obviously, otherwise pavucontrol wouldn’t have worked. But the volume for this was set to zero apparently.
Oh, I missed the connection to volume up.
My memory warp here, e.g. 12.2 Event Sounds shows up as slider on the Playback Streams tab of KMix by, default.