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since I'm on xfce4, I never could set the multimedia key(vol + vol -) to works fine, I had xfce4-volumed, but it display the notification with the volume bar going up or down, but never changed the vol settings, then with just xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, without xfce4-volumed, everything worked fine. I remebered that in ubuntu and eOS clementine had a control panel in the vol conext menu, so I installed xfce4-indicator.
I'm confused now, if I installed volumed or pulseaudio-plugin, they take over the xf86Audio... and show the notification but does not affect the volume set
in sound config(pulseaudio mixer) it is set "playback...."
now I removed xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin & xfce4-volumed.
I think I have a mixed up Alsa with Pulseaudio...
I could install pulseaudio-ctl, but I don't think is the right way of doing things
I don't know how to make xfce4-volumed change the volume
Last edited by fajung (2016-10-15 14:09:04)
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please post output of aplay -l and run alsamixer from terminal to make sure the master volume is not muted.
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[fajung@Archlinux ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
I use spidif output , if I play a 2.0 or 5.1 movie(SMPlayer) it works fine, I think 7.1 whould work... , it just the xf86Audio key does not change it when I'm using the xfce4-indicator, if I use xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, it works, but if it is possible I want to use the xfce4-indicator which add the mediaplayer in the volume menu
it just that tiny thing that can't figure it out, how does that works
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ok, I kinda solved it, or so, I removed xfce4-volumed-plugin and just added the keyboard's shortkeys:
XF86AudioRaiseVolume = amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%+
XF86AudioLowerVolume = amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%-
XF86AudioMute = pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle
It just does what I need.
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