Pulse audio volume control with multimedia keys

[Lorenzo Sutton]

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.

I'm currently resorting to mapping multimedia keys to hackish scripts 
involving amixer and zenity to do volume up/down and mute and provide a 
rudimentary notification.

The Arch wiki mentions xfce4-volumed-pulse [1] which is also found on 
some 'rpm search' sites (which I haven't had time to test).

While the above amixer hack works perfectly (albeit rather ugly 
especially concerning the notification side), I'm also wondering what 
the current preferred/suggested Fedora-specific approach to this issue 
is (if any).

Any input or idea appreciated.

Lorenzo.

[1] https://launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed-pulse

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:35:55 +0100
Lorenzo Sutton  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?

kevin

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 24/11/15 05:08, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:35:55 +0100
> Lorenzo Sutton  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?

Lorenzo.
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[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:50:47 +0100
Lorenzo Sutton  wrote:
> On 24/11/15 05:08, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:35:55 +0100
> > Lorenzo Sutton  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