3.2-rc1, xfce4 volume control

[Micah Lee]

One thing I've noticed is that there's no volume control on my panel,
and my laptop's volume up and down keys don't work to adjust the volume.

I discovered that I can adjust the volume by manually running alsamixer
in dom0. I also discovered that I can install the xfce4-mixer package,
and then run xfce4-mixer, to get a GUI granular volume control. That
package also include a mixer panel applet, which requires a bit of
configuration to work properly.

I still haven't made my volume up and down keys work.

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 02:50:10PM -0700, Micah Lee wrote:
> One thing I've noticed is that there's no volume control on my panel,
> and my laptop's volume up and down keys don't work to adjust the volume.
>
> I discovered that I can adjust the volume by manually running alsamixer
> in dom0. I also discovered that I can install the xfce4-mixer package,
> and then run xfce4-mixer, to get a GUI granular volume control.

Wasn't that installed by default? It should be...

> That
> package also include a mixer panel applet, which requires a bit of
> configuration to work properly.
>
> I still haven't made my volume up and down keys work.

Install xfce4-volumed. It will be installed by default in next release
candidate.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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[Micah Lee]

On 07/13/2016 03:07 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> Wasn't that installed by default? It should be...

It wasn't for me. I installed xfce by installing the @xfce-desktop-qubes
package in dom0, rather than using the installer.

> Install xfce4-volumed. It will be installed by default in next release
> candidate.

Thanks!

[raah...@gmail.com]

did you figure out how to get your volume controls working. I had same issue and installed the audio mixer from panel preferences, but haven't got the kb volume buttons working yet.

[sebast...@gmail.com]

In 3.2-rc3 the volume buttons still don't work for me either. I had to set the master card to #1 rather than #0 but I don't know how to change this for xfce4-volumed.

[sebast...@gmail.com]

I've found the issue,
if we go to System Tools -> Settings Editor -> xfce4-mixer
you need to set the property "active-card" to the value of the card you want to change volume for. This is independent of which card is active for alsa by default.

However the mute is still broken. When you press mute, it mutes both Master & Speaker, when it unmutes it only unmutes property "active-track" which is typically Master OR Speaker.

[Michael Carbone]

sebast...@gmail.com:

> However the mute is still broken. When you press mute, it mutes both Master & Speaker, when it unmutes it only unmutes property "active-track" which is typically Master OR Speaker.

just want to highlight/confirm the muting issue, I created an issue for it:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2291

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[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 03:51:00PM +0000, Michael Carbone wrote:
> sebast...@gmail.com:
> > However the mute is still broken. When you press mute, it mutes both Master & Speaker, when it unmutes it only unmutes property "active-track" which is typically Master OR Speaker.
>
> just want to highlight/confirm the muting issue, I created an issue for it:
>
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2291

Same here. For a long time (3.0 at least). But you don't need to open
mixer app - middle-click on mixer applet is enough.

I think it may not be Qubes specific bug at all, but haven't looked if
upstream report for it exists.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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[Connor Page]

volumed and mixer are not maintained by xfce team anymore [1]
since audio relies on pulseaudio it would make sense to use pulseaudio plugin and key bindings in dom0.

[1] http://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1425081600

[Andrew David Wong]

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Thanks. Tracking:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2321

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Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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