Strange behavior of Login Notification sound of KDE

[sehsuvar]

I am using Tumbleweed. Recently I noticed strange behavior of the KDE notification sound, specially logon sound. I set logon and logout sounds by using KDE setting of notifications. After booting the system, in first logon there is no sound (no chime) then I log out and log in, it plays sound (or chimes).

Does any of you notice this, And any idea what is happening?.

[hui]

Tumbleweed - no login sound

Hi, I have installed the latest updates from today and the “login” sound to the system is not playing. Do you have the issue as well?

Has anyone else lost the start up sound with Plasma KDE 6.5 using Tumbleweed?

I did a fresh install of Plasma KDE 6.5 today using the latest Tumbleweed ISO and have lost the ability of having the system start-up sound. I used the normal setting in: System Settings Notifications System Notifications Login Is it just me? My system details are: Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20251024 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.10.0 Kernel Version: 6.17.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i5-14400…

[sehsuvar]

I already read some topics. But funny thing is “Boot / login / logout / login”. Then it works fine.

[deano_ferrari]

That’s because PipeWire socket activation has kicked in already in that scenario. Enable the user service explicitly as described elsewhere if the login sound is important to you.

[Cincon]

I was having the same issue (maybe last 5-10 months) never bothered to look into the problem. Didn’t see previous thread back in Oct 2025, but read it and used this command

systemctl --user enable --now pipewire.service

I now have my login sound back, the logout sound never left though.

Thanks for pointing out those old threads hui

[sehsuvar]

@Cincon

systemctl --user enable --now pipewire.service

Yay, I got my login sound back

Thanks alot