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09-25-2020 12:54 PM |
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Originally Posted by byron.hawkins
(Post 6169579)
Just a note that this feature is no longer available, at least not in pavucontrol 4.0. There is no way to modify the volume level per application.
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It may still be there but, if memory serves, applications don't actually show up in pavucontrol unless they're actually running and playing audio. So... you're stuck reacting to the application's audio than having the ability to control it in the first place. Unless, as you mentioned, by going into each application and tweaking the sound level. For me, that'd be a royal PITA as I may have several browser windows opened on different activities and would have to look at each one to figure out which activity and browser tab is playing audio.
I've had some luck with this kind of problem using Jack (esp. jack_mixer). If the application is "Jack aware", I can configure it to run its audio to Jack and define a channel for it in jack_mixer and keep that slider turned way down unless I want to listen to it (or mute it entirely). If the application can only run its audio through PulseAudio (PA) I can still control that using a dedicated PA channel in jack_mixer. The downside is that all applications running their audio through PA are affected by my jack_mixer slider setting. It's been working out well for me as jack_mixer doesn't eat up too much screen real estate and I can configure it to be visible on all of my KDE activities for quick access.
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