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nycko

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Registered: 2011-08-07

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[SOLVED] Openbox, Volumeicon -> play sound on volume up/down

Hello,

so i'm using openbox and i'm wondering how to add a certain actions to my keyboard volume up/down buttons.

I've set up volumeicon with xfce4-notifyd support and everything works great. The thing is i'd like to add a sound notification every time I press XF86AudioRaise or XF86AudioLower on my keyboard.

I've tried to set it in openbox rc file

<keybind key="XF86AudioLowerVolume">
		<action name="Execute">
			<command>amixer set Master 5%- && play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga -q</command>
		</action>
	</keybind>
	<keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
		<action name="Execute">
			<command>amixer set Master 5%+ && play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga -q</command>
		</action>
	</keybind>

but i don't have visual notifications then (xfce4-notifyd).

Is there a simple way to have volumeicon + xfce4-notifyd working with playing sound on VolUp/Down keys pressed?

PS. Perhaps some command to send volume level via notify-send?

Solution

So, I've written my own script, which works good. (~/bin/volume)

~/bin/volume

#!/bin/bash

## sound level
STATUS=`amixer get Master | grep -m 1 '%' | cut -d'[' -f2 | cut -d'%' -f1`

## changing sound level
if [ "$1" = "toggle" ]; then
	amixer set Master toggle
elif [ "$1" = "volup" ]; then
	amixer set Master unmute
	amixer set Master 10%+
elif [ "$1" = "voldown" ]; then
	amixer set Master unmute
	amixer set Master 10%-
fi

## playing sound
play /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga -q

## killing existing notifications
(pidof xfce4-notifyd 1>/dev/null && killall xfce4-notifyd)

## new sound level after change
STATUS_NEW=`amixer get Master | grep -m 1 '%' | cut -d'[' -f2 | cut -d'%' -f1`

## sound muted on/off
MUTED=`amixer get Master | grep -m 1 '%' | cut -d'[' -f3 | cut -d']' -f1`

## icon based on volume level
if [ "$STATUS_NEW" -le 33 ]; then
	ICON="audio-volume-low"
elif [ "$STATUS_NEW" -ge 66 ]; then
	ICON="audio-volume-high"
else
	ICON="audio-volume-medium"
fi

if [ "$MUTED" = "off" ]; then
	ICON="audio-volume-muted"
fi

## sending notification
notify-send " " -i $ICON -h int:value:$STATUS_NEW -h string:synchronous:volume

My openbox rc

<keybind key="XF86AudioMute">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>volume toggle</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86AudioLowerVolume">
        <action name="Execute">
            <command>volume voldown</command>
        </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
        <action name="Execute">
            <command>volume volup</command>
        </action>
    </keybind>

Last edited by nycko (2016-09-14 07:51:37)

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