pulseaudio-ctl makepkg suggestion and advice request

quequotion · 2014-12-12 04:12:36

graysky wrote:

Use this little script to control your pulseaudio volume from within xfce4 or other DE's via mapped keys on the keyboard (mine actually has keys for mute, vol+ and vol-). Mapping shortcut keys varies from DE to DE. On xfce4, the you can do this under Settings > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts.
Usage is very simple:
/usr/bin/pulseaudio-ctl mute will toggle status of mute
/usr/bin/pulseaudio-ctl up will increase vol by 5 %
/usr/bin/pulseaudio-ctl down will decrease vol by 5 %
You can map these three actions to three keyboard shortcuts for quick access. My keyboard actually has discrete buttons for these actions:
http://s19.postimg.org/5lqxulqb7/keyboard.jpg
If you execute the script from the shell, it will output the above and also show the current vol level and mute status:
% pulseaudio-ctl
pulseaudio-ctl v1.45
/usr/bin/pulseaudio-ctl {up,down,mute,mute-input,set,atmost} [n]
Where up and down adjust volume in ±5 % increments.
Where mute toggles the mute status on/off.
Where mute-input toggles the input status on/off.
Where set takes a % value.
Where atmost only takes effect if current volume is higher than this.
Optionally, redefine an upper threshold in /home/facade/.config/pulseaudio-ctl/config
Volume level : 90 %
Is sink muted : no
Is source muted : no
Detected sink : 1
Detected source : 1
Pulse version : 5.0
UPDATE on 03-Nov-2014: Now uses libnotify to show vol level and mute status.
AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pulseaudio-ctl
GitHub: https://github.com/graysky2/pulseaudio-ctl

I want to modify it to offer optional pacmd+pactl/amixer+???? control.

-p ==>  Use pulseaudio control backend (default)
-a ==>  Use alsa control backend

This makes the dependencies optional.

I also had a different problem:

sudo qqbuild cflags -Os aura -A pulseaudio-ctl
[sudo] password for quequotion: 
aura >>= Determining dependencies...
aura >>= Repository dependencies:
libpulse
pulseaudio

aura >>= AUR Packages:
pulseaudio-ctl

aura >>= Continue? [Y/n] n
aura >>= Installation manually aborted.

quequotion had alsa-utils installed.

pulseaudio-git's PKGBUILD {provides,conflicts,replaces}(libpulse pulseaudio), without even a version number.

The version number is the problem, but I removed replaces() anyway.

provides=("pulseaudio=$pkgver" "libpulse=$pkgver")
conflicts=("pulseaudio" "libpulse")
[snip]
pkgver() {
	cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
	gitver=$(git describe --always | sed "s/-/./g")
	gitver=${gitver:1}
	echo $gitver
}

can this pkgver() be shortened?

This solves dependency problems with pusleaudio-ctl & pulseaudio-git.

Now I can get on to modifying your script

EDIT - fixed copypasta type-o; back from work; on to bashing

Last edited by quequotion (2014-12-12 22:34:09)

graysky · 2014-12-12 15:27:45

Not sure how relevant your post is to this script

ewaller · 2014-12-12 16:38:41

At graysky's request, I have moved this side discussion about the PKGBUILD to its own thread. Moves to AUR Issue, Discussion and PKGBUILD Requests

quequotion · 2014-12-12 21:49:50

graysky wrote:

Not sure how relevant your post is to this script

Not as relevant as I thought. I had in mind that it would be useful if the script supported both alsa and pulse backends (to use the same script in different setups); even though it's not really useful for me. I also have in mind to streamline the various execution calls; and make use of notification ids.

Anyway, I ended up doing nothing for now; I may come back to this later. In fact, gnome-settings-daemon should be managing these hotkeys for me, but it has proven extremely unreliable lately (some features have been moved to gnome-shell or another component without documentation; others just vanished completely).

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#1 2014-12-12 04:12:36

pulseaudio-ctl makepkg suggestion and advice request

#2 2014-12-12 15:27:45

Re: pulseaudio-ctl makepkg suggestion and advice request

#3 2014-12-12 16:38:41

Re: pulseaudio-ctl makepkg suggestion and advice request

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Re: pulseaudio-ctl makepkg suggestion and advice request

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