Package: xfce4-volumed Version: 0.1.13-3 Severity: normal I need to use pulseaudio and pavucontrol to be able to easily toggle between HDMI audio output to a TV and laptop speakers. I also want to use xfce volumed and mixer to control audio with special Fn keys.
Sadly xfce volumed does not use pulse by default, but interacts directly with the sound card. Volumed points to sound card, and when I mute with Fn+keyboard, it mutes master and pulseaudio but cannot unmute pulseaudio! This is a well known bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed/+bug/883485 In the ubuntu bug thread, two workarounds are suggested. One is to do away with xfce4-volumed (a developer admits it doesn't support pulse), so that custom key bindings can be defined (more robust solution) or do this: $ xfconf-query -c xfce4-mixer -p /active-card -s `xfconf-query -c xfce4-mixer -p /sound-card` This last command works, but it's not robust enough to handle multiple cards (e.g. HDMI outputs): When I switch to HDMI, audio control with Fn keys is useless. Furthermore, when I use pavucontrol to switch back to laptop speakers, volumed continues to be useless... There is a patch referred in the ubuntu thread: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/101001716/xfce4-volumed_0.1.13-2ubuntu2.debdiff However, Ubuntu uses pulseaudio by default while Debian does not. I'm not sure this patch is robust enough to handle both cases. I hope the maintainer can take a look. Thanks. For now, I try to make the first workaround work. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xfce4-volumed depends on: ii gstreamer0.10-alsa [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.36-1 ii gstreamer0.10-gconf [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.31-3 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.23-6 ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.31-3 ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.31-3 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1 ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.36-1 ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-1 ii libkeybinder0 0.2.2-4 ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1 ii libxfconf-0-2 4.8.1-1 xfce4-volumed recommends no packages. xfce4-volumed suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
