[SOLVED] Keyboard Volume Control

soxplayer · 07-08-2016, 04:37 PM

Hello,

FN F11 and FN F12 work in KDE but not XFCE.

Anyone have any hints?

I did manage to map FN F10 to

pactl set sink-sink-mute 0 toggle.

similar attempt to use pactl fail for the volume up and volume down.

Thanks for any help.

cwizardone · 07-08-2016, 05:08 PM

Do you have the "pulseaudio panel plugin" installed?
The multimedia keys work fine here with Slackware64-14.2 and Xfce.

slackb0t · 07-08-2016, 05:16 PM

This works for me in i3.

Code:

set $sink `pactl list short sinks | grep RUNNING | cut -f1`
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-volume $sink +10%
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-volume $sink -10%
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec --no-startup-id pactl set-sink-mute $sink toggle

soxplayer · 07-08-2016, 06:53 PM

cwizardone: I do not believe it is installed. It is not in the "everything" install and I do not see it in the /extra directory of the installation disk or on sbopkg.

Not sure of the source I should use.

soxplayer · 07-08-2016, 07:02 PM

Slackb0t,

I think that the pulseaudio install will prevent this from working as there is no 'RUNNING' sink.

bash-4.3# pactl list short sinks | grep RUNNING | cut -f1
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
bash-4.3#

or just the pactl command:

bash-4.3# pactl list short sinks
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
No protocol specified
0 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz IDLE
bash-4.3#

reveals nothing for grep to match to.

cwizardone · 07-08-2016, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soxplayer

cwizardone: I do not believe it is installed. It is not in the "everything" install and I do not see it in the /extra directory of the installation disk or on sbopkg.

Not sure of the source I should use.

It is part of the standard Slackware installation.

Quote:

PACKAGE NAME: xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-x86_64-3.txz
PACKAGE LOCATION: ./slackware64/xfce
PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 40 K
PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 160 K
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin: xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin (PulseAudio plugin for Xfce panel)
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin: xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin is a plugin for the Xfce panel which provides
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin: a convenient way to adjust the audio volume of the PulseAudio sound
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin: system and to an auto mixer tool like pavucontrol. It can optionally
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin: handle multimedia keys for controlling the audio volume.
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:

A full installation is highly recommended.

soxplayer · 07-08-2016, 07:34 PM

I have verified that xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-x86_64-3 is an installed package. is this the 'panel' plugin you are referring to?

How can I verify that it is running?

It does not seem to appear using ps aux

soxplayer · 07-08-2016, 07:51 PM

Based on the feedback, I discovered the issue.

The pulseaudio panel plugin is not active by default. You can find the panel setting in the xfce setting menu and simply add the plugin to the panel and it works quite well.

cwizardone · 07-08-2016, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soxplayer

Based on the feedback, I discovered the issue.

The pulseaudio panel plugin is not active by default. You can find the panel setting in the xfce setting menu and simply add the plugin to the panel and it works quite well.

That will do it.
You can also right click on the panel, then go to "panel" and then, "add new items."