is there anything that I can use to control the sound level in fluxbox? when I was using KDE, I used KMix, and just adjusted the volume that way, is there something similar for fluxbox? I'd like it to sit down in the corner, next to the clock, like gaim and azureus do

aptitude install mixer.app

Or, if you use ALSA, you can run alsamixer in a terminal window.

is there something more similar to just a simple vol. up/vol. down program? I don't want something that big either

Mixer.app isn't really that big... Personally I find dockapps very convenient.

Anyway, you could use amixer (that is included in the alsa-utils package) by associating it with some keybindings in fluxbox. This way you don't need to install any extra applications -- just hit the associated keys to increase or decrease sound volume. The file to edit is ~/.fluxbox/keys. Some documentation can be found here: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbo...html/c289.html

The amixer command to increase sound volume is: amixer set Master 1+
The amixer command to decrease sound volume is: amixer set Master 1-

will amixer work even if I don't use alsa? The driver for my soundcard is under the OSS section in the kernel, so that's what I used. I'm not sure if I could use alsa or not, I'm not even fully sure what alsa is. By big, I meant is seems really big on the screen, it's a big box(as opposed to disk usage wise).

Amixer comes with ALSA, so it's very unlikely that it works with OSS.

I don't know that many mixer applications, mixer.app is what I use myself.

Are we talking about the same application? Here's a picture showing Mixer.app: http://www.fukt.bth.se/~per/mixer/

And here's a screenshot that shows what Mixer.app looks like in 1024x768 screen: http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?scre...6d6c0&p=screen

Mixer.app is a "dockapp" that starts in fluxbox's "slit" and, IIRC, you can configure slit applications to automatically hide and only show up when you move the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen.

yes, it's the same app. Ok granted, it's not big per se, but it's bigger than what I'm looking for. The bar on the botton, where the workspace name is given and where the clock is located is where I'd like this located, down next to gaim. Will kmix do this?

No idea. You must try it yourself.

If you use gkrellm, it has a "gkrellm-volume" plugin that does pretty much the same thing as Mixer.app.

kmix does work like this. I like te idea of keybindings though, can kmix function this way? or is there something for OSS?

yes it will. it even has the little volume slider so you don't have to open the whole panel all the time.

aumix is another good little mixer, but afaik it doesn't dock anywhere.

With aumix you can bind these commands to some keys:

raise sound volume: aumix -v +5
lower sound volume: aumix -v -5

what do I need to put to get the PageUp key recognized by .fluxbox/keys? Alt=Mod1, Control = Ctrl, what's PageUp, and PageDown?

I don't have fluxbox installed at the moment, so I cannot test if this works, but you could try the key names that xmodmap uses in its keymap tables:

PageUp --> Prior
PageDown --> Next