On Oct 13, 2020, at 23:03, R C <cjvijf at gmail.com> wrote: > > been playing around a bit and noticed: > > > When I login as root, gnome, all the system sounds seem to be working. > > When I log in as a regelur user, the system sounds do't. So I guess it must be a permissions issue somewhere that happened during/after the last update? I didn’t know it was even possible to use GNOME as root. It certainly is a terrible idea. It’s possible that the regular user not being able to use sounds might be an artifact of running GNOME as root, some permissions somewhere broken or a configuration file removed. You need to take a look at the systemd journal to see what errors pulseaudio is getting when you log in as the user. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>