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magnet helper

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Registered: 2025-05-23

Posts: 17

[ABANDONED] several audio questions

i am using a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (6th gen) and xfce4. i am using a mix of pulseaudio and jack2 - i hope to eventually configure the setup outlined here for professional low-latency recording via jack into reaper. for now, though, i'm just getting used to living in xfce again. i have sound working, including bluetooth audio via pulseaudio. my headphones (Sony WH-1000XM2) can send volume up/down via bluetooth, and it does affect playback levels from firefox and quod libet, seeming to bypass whatever alsamixer shows.

for now, the things i would like to do, in no particular order, are:

• volume control indicator - i can use alsamixer but i would like a little applet or something in the task bar

• use laptop volume keys for up/down/mute

• start bluetooth.service on login, hopefully without needing to ask for the root password

• use bluetooth headphones (again, Sony WH-1000XM2) as a playback device in audacity - does not appear on the list

thanks all!

Last edited by magnet helper (2025-07-24 21:42:10)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 66,291

Re: [ABANDONED] several audio questions

nobody uses pulseaudio anymore, try pipewire (and pipewire-jack) if you want a userspace sound daemon.
w/ pipewire-pulse libpulse clients will work and that should include  https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … io-plugin/

Also please don't create omnibus threads but focus on one topic.
Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth and open a new thread if you've ongoing problems w/ the bluetooth setup.

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magnet helper

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Registered: 2025-05-23

Posts: 17

Re: [ABANDONED] several audio questions

sure, my bad. i can close this thread and start new ones.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [ABANDONED] several audio questions

Please don't use CLOSED, it's reserved for moderators.

Abandoned would be a better choice.

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