Re: Notifications from KDED "USB device detected"

[Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM Marc Haber <mh+debian-kde@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running Debian unstable on both my Notebook and my Desktop. Thanks
> for caring about KDE. It has been my favorite desktop for two decades.
>
> The Notebook puts up notifications form KDED whenever a new USB device
> is detected or an USB device goes away. I find that very helpful.
>
> The Desktop doesn't.
>
> How can I configure this to also happen on the desktop?
>

Played a bit...

# plocate notifyrc | grep plasma_workspace
/home/dileks/.config/plasma_workspace.notifyrc
/usr/share/knotifications5/plasma_workspace.notifyrc
/usr/share/knotifications6/plasma_workspace.notifyrc

$ cat ~/.config/plasma_workspace.notifyrc
[Event/deviceAdded]
Action=Popup|Sound

[Event/deviceRemoved]
Action=Popup|Sound

# egrep -A 1 -B 1 'device-rem|device-add'
/usr/share/knotifications6/plasma_workspace.notifyrc
2340-Action=Popup|Sound
2341:Sound=device-added
2342-Urgency=Low
--
2423-Action=Popup|Sound
2424:Sound=device-removed
2425-Urgency=Low

# plocate sound | egrep 'device-rem|device-add'
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/device-added.oga
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/device-removed.oga
/usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-added.oga
/usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-added.oga.license
/usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-removed.oga
/usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/device-removed.oga.license
/usr/share/sounds/oxygen/stereo/device-added.ogg
/usr/share/sounds/oxygen/stereo/device-removed.ogg

# dpkg -S /usr/share/knotifications6/plasma_workspace.notifyrc
frameworkintegration6: /usr/share/knotifications6/plasma_workspace.notifyrc

# plocate notif | grep device | egrep -v 'locale|solid' | grep .so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/kf6/kded/devicenotifications.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/plasma/applets/org.kde.plasma.devicenotifier.so

plasma-workspace:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/kf6/kded/devicenotifications.so
plasma-workspace:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/plasma/applets/org.kde.plasma.devicenotifier.so
libplasma5support6:amd64:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/plasma5support/dataengine/plasma_engine_devicenotifications.so

BR,
-Sedat-