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Frying_Pan

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Registered: 2022-07-05

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Headphone volume control is changing 2 different volumes at same time

I have a pair of Corsair Virtuoso something or other headphones (they make really confusing names for some reason). They have a volume wheel thing that seems to be controlling both an internal volume thing in the headphones themselves and also triggering the volume keys. this is quite annoying as it means turning down the volume takes way less time to reach 0 volume and is far less "precise" than turning up the volume. I was previously using Ubuntu and had this same issue but I switched to KDE Plasma for my DE on there and the issue when away (Plasma ignored the volume key presses from the headphones I assume), but now that I have switched to arch, this issue has returned again, even though I am still using Plasma. Is there any way to make it ignore the volume key presses from only the headphones?

Last edited by Frying_Pan (2022-07-05 04:47:29)

V1del

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Re: Headphone volume control is changing 2 different volumes at same time

If you're on xorg you could configure a xorg snippet to ignore the control device of the headset. E.g.

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "Headphone Keys Blacklist"
   MatchProduct "$insertProductIdentificationString" #Check a xorg.log or xinput for the string to add here or alternatively MatchUSBID "vid:pid" where you can find vid:pid in lsusb
   Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection