Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
"The primary task of knotify is to relay sound notifications to the sound server, it also provides alternative notification methods."
It can do sound or text popup AFAIK same as dbus notifications.
While irrelevant to my use case, doesn't explain why knotify sometimes launched immediately on login and other times not. I don't use any system login sounds.
How do you know this - ps output?