Application remains silent because KDE remembers muted audio state for the executable

Hey Garuda folk,

I want to share the experience that I recently made. I was really desparate. My favourite game, Indivisible, had no audio anymore and I couldn’t find anything wrong. I checked the pacman packages, reinstalled the game, checked the last snapshot and updated to a new system state. Nothing helped.

But out of coincidence, it wasn’t easy to see, I noticed, there is a striked through headspeaker symbol, hard to see, at the game’s icon in the task bar. Clicking on it turned on the Audio again.

To me, it was surprising that KDE remembered the muted audio state for the executable. I wonder, if there is a reason or another place to toggle the muted-ness.

Just my cents about a surprising discovery. I am so happy, it still works.

Regards,
Elmar

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Hello Elmar,

Welcome ,

yes thats a task bar feature . I dont know if its KDE or Wine who remember the muted audio state from executable file if you mean like a game.

Vlc Player,Browser or other Audio Apps have those small audio icon to mute Control i like it but sometimes on the game hovering i mute it with accident but but back on.If you dont want this behavior i can show you how to disable it.

If you want check other muted state you can check here too if clicked icon.

:smiling_face:

btw my game dosnt have that small icon (only a wine glass icon no small speaker but can control over top audio)

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Thank you!
Nice, I forgot that. In future, I know where I need to look if sound is not working for a specific executable.

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