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SpacetimeBull

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Registered: 2021-02-13

Posts: 25

Unable to control volume without latte-dock

I am on KDE5 and I want to control my volume with my keyboard volume adjuster without using latte-dock or the plasmoid, how can I make it so I can do that? I have both alsa and pulse installed and I cannot get it to work..

natervance

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Registered: 2017-04-20

Posts: 53

Re: Unable to control volume without latte-dock

You can set a keyboard shortcut to execute the following to increase the volume by 10%:

pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +10%

For decreasing, make it -10%. My keyboard doesn't have volume buttons, so I set it as a shortcut with super-plus and super-minus. I'm surprised that KDE doesn't have that set up by default to work with your keyboard volume adjuster, but I believe that you can configure that as a keyboard shortcut just like anything else.