Re: Pulse audio volume control with multimedia keys

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:50:47 +0100
Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 24/11/15 05:08, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:35:55 +0100
>  > Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >  
>  >> Hi list,
>  >>
>  >> I've just installed Fedora 23 XFCE and it seems volume control of
>  >> PulseAudio is still problematic when trying to use 'multimedia
>  >> keys' on my laptop. (This relates to the internal sound card).
>  >>
>  >> xfce4-volumed seems to have a problem with PulseAudio in that if
>  >> one mutes audio it can't be unmuted.  
>  > ...snip...
>  >
>  > Can you try with xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin instead of xfce4-volumed?  
>  
>  Thanks kevin, that's exactly what I needed!
>  
>  For some reason I wasn't thinking a panel plugin would provide
>  keyboard shortcut functionality as well.
>  
>  Maybe the two functionalists could be decoupled? i.e. a user might
>  want to control pulseaudio volume via multimedia keys but not want to
>  have the panel plug-in too? 
Well, you are welcome to suggest this to the upstream
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin maintainers. I don't know how closely tied
things are. 

kevin