Master volume temporarily lowered while playing system notifications

[Neal Becker]

Dave Ulrick wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> 
>> Most likely this is a pulseAudio thing. I f you want to reset the volume
>> slider, start pavucontrol and set the volume to a value you want.
>> pulseAudio has the big advantage of setting volume for every program by
>> its own.
> 
> It looks like my problem was indeed a pulseAudio feature.  In pavucontrol
> I found a slider for "System Sounds" that was set to 90%.  (I have no idea
> of how it got set that way to begin with; I don't recall ever changing
> volumes in pavucontrol.) Increasing it to 100% eliminated the master
> volume level changes.  Problem solved!
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave

I found this confusing also.  It wasn't clear to me what the interaction 
between pavucontrol and kmix would be.  I noticed my system sounds had 
somehow gotten set low in pavucontrol, and turned them up.  But, will this 
keep it permanently set that way, regardless of kmix?