KDE: Informational pop-ups

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iphands · Post by **iphands** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:33 pm

Before I start: This is not really a Gentoo question, I am seeing this on RHEL4,5 (though it should apply on Gentoo). Also please excuse my KDE noob-ness (I'm a Gnome Guy).

I need to suppress all "Informational" messages that KDE wants to show me, and I can not click the "Do not show this message again" box. I would guess there is a gconftool-2 type app for K that I could use to disable such things. Is there? Can it disable "Informational" pop-ups? I am also launching kdeinit, kwin, and kdesktop from a bash script so if I could pass command line arguments to these that would be ok.

BTW the exact window that comes up is "Informational - artsmessage".... If I could get rid of that window cool, but if I could disable pop-up windows of this type all together GREAT. (oh im in a server env. so no configuring sound cards (don't have one) to get rid of it)

Preemptive Thanks,
-Ian

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:15 pm

kcontrol -> Sound & Multimedia -> System notifications

iphands · Post by **iphands** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:54 pm

ppurka wrote:kcontrol -> Sound & Multimedia -> System notifications

This is great but I forgot to mention that I need to do this from a script (GUI == Bad).... is there a way to flip these from on to off from CLI?

Thanks
-Ian

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:10 pm

If you have kcontrol running, then perhaps probing around with dcop will help. Other than that, you will probably have to parse and change the settings in ~/.kde/share/config/ to affect newly launched applications. I am unaware of any other method.