Thanks for the tip! So flat-volume wasn't called in the client pulseaudio config file. I figured it was disabled by default, but went ahead and added it in anyhow. So far after restarting my desktop, volume isn't jumping to 100%. I'll update if that changes.
On 26 October 2015 at 03:27, JonAnder Peñalba <jonan.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-10-25 12:02 GMT+01:00 Rubin Abdi <ru...@starset.net>: > >> I realized I didn't really need kmix anymore, or so I thought. After >> removing and restarting the desktop session, whenever audio gets played >> (like Pidgin's notification sound), regardless of what level the master >> volume is set at, it'll jump to 100%. The only except is if mute is turned >> on for master. Not sure if removing kmix broke something. >> > > This sounds like an issue with pulseaudio's flat-volumes. > Try disabling flat-volumes to see if it fixes it. > > I opened a bug report long ago to address this issue, but no decision was > made [1]. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674935 > -- Rubin ru...@starset.net
