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imlost

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Registered: 2026-07-08

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Audio volume ignores pavucontrol and only uses alsamixer

I'm on XFCE + Arch and my audio stack is behaving really weirdly
My audio output volume always ends up as whatever I set it to with `alsamixer` regardless of the volume set with pavucontrol.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,284

Re: Audio volume ignores pavucontrol and only uses alsamixer

You should generally not need to touch alsamixer when using pulse/pipewire and doing so anyway is likely to mess up the relevant upper layers because they don't get notified of the change and xfce has a pulseaudio panel plugin make sure you're using that: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … io-plugin/

That said some general sanity checks would help to have the outputs of

systemctl --user status pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber pulseaudio
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL
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