On lun., 2012-06-11 at 02:38 -0400, Andres Cimmarusti wrote: > 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. >
Didn't yet read the whole ubuntu bug, but xfce4-volumed uses gstreamer, it doesn't “speak directly to the sound card”. Can't you just switch to gstreamer-pulseaudio? Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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