[SOLVED] Sound volume control app

[shogun1234]

Right now I use i3wm as my daily working environment. It's fine for programming task. But it's inconvenience for daily usage, particularly the sound volume control. I use volumeicon for controlling desktop volume through hotkey. Although it works, the downside is its icon display is very small (it can't be adjusted and I do not find enough time patching the code because it's not a language I am familiar) that it's nearly invisible for me. Or when adjusting the volume, no beep sound indicating the current volume level. So my ears frequently get hurt e.g. when I open youtube video, sometimes the broadcast is extremely loud that it's a painful experience.

However when trying to reuse gnome sound volume or similar app, it seems that they all depend on a specific desktop environment. So I do not any app similar to volumeicon. I found some others such as volnoti, but it's not good enough compared to volumeicon (just for me but it doesn't mean others would experience the same). Any others suggestions? Many thanks

[ralph.ronnquist]

There is ''alsamixer'' which is run in a terminal, and ''qasmixer'' doing the same in its own window. Maybe one of those will work for you.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

the downside is its icon display is very small

Try using libnotify instead, it's an option in the preferences. Needs to have a notification server running though.

[None1975]

If you use pulseaudio, you can try pasystray. Pasystray enables control of various PulseAudio server settings from the X11 system tray.

[shogun1234]

If you use pulseaudio, you can try pasystray. Pasystray enables control of various PulseAudio server settings from the X11 system tray.

When launching with command pasystray --always-notify, then pressing media key the console throws following error.

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(pasystray:2533): pasystray-WARNING **: 20:46:14.032: [notify] unable to show notification: g-dbus-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Notifications: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileExists: Unit xfce4-notifyd.service failed to load properly: File exists. (18)

This seems to be because I use dunst. Anyway to use dunst instead of xfce4-notifyd?

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$ systemctl --user list-dependencies default.target
default.target
● ├─dunst.service
● └─basic.target
●   ├─paths.target
●   ├─sockets.target
●   │ ├─dbus.socket
●   │ ├─dirmngr.socket
●   │ ├─gpg-agent-browser.socket
●   │ ├─gpg-agent-extra.socket
●   │ ├─gpg-agent-ssh.socket
●   │ ├─gpg-agent.socket
●   │ └─pulseaudio.socket
●   └─timers.target

[shogun1234]

There is ''alsamixer'' which is run in a terminal, and ''qasmixer'' doing the same in its own window. Maybe one of those will work for you.

I use alsamixer as well. Can alsamixer bind with media key? So pressing hotkey can directly change and get notified w/t opening the terminal? I have this question because I can't find doc that mention about this. Thanks

[None1975]

This seems to be because I use dunst. Anyway to use dunst instead of xfce4-notifyd?

Just remove dunst and use xfce4-notifyd. i3 with this notification daemon works very well.

[shogun1234]

This seems to be because I use dunst. Anyway to use dunst instead of xfce4-notifyd?

Just remove dunst and use xfce4-notifyd. i3 with this notification daemon works very well.

1. Remove dunst

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apt-get purge dunst

2. In i3 config (~/.config/i3/config) switching to use pasystray

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exec_always --no-startup-id pasystray --always-notify

This looks much better, many thanks!

One more question. Is it possible to produce beep sound (a bit like hinting the current sound level) when pressing the hot key?Sometimes I do not pay attention to the notification so this is useful for me as well. Anyway this is a minor issue. Most appreciate it!