Master volume temporarily lowered while playing system notifications

[Dave Ulrick]

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
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Dave Ulrick
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