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Fluffy
Asked: 2014-02-17 11:21:32 +0800 CST

Sound popup showing every minute in xubuntu

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I have the sound popup thingy displayed about every minute, even without changing any volume settings, or clicking/pressing anything. It's happening in xubuntu 13.10 and looks like this

looks like this

How can I fix it?

xubuntu

2 Answers

  1. Check your keyboard media keys, they are the usual suspects. Also verify what key combination you have to change the volumes, if you have set a more common key. If it's regular check the cron jobs using cron -e and any running script using ps ax | grep $USER

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  2. Best Answer

    If anything, I got it fixed by killing xfce-volumed with killall xfce-volumed. Also removing it from autostart is needed:

    going to Xfce 4 Settings Manger -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart and then unchecking XFCE Volume Daemon and Volume Control

    Now I don't get that annoying popup.

    Btw here's another user having this problem (where I got the idea from): http://xfce.10915.n7.nabble.com/How-to-disable-notification-popups-td43164.html

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