Yes, the end solution I think will be to monitor when the software mixer status changes and then sych this (both the mute status and the rounded volume level) to the hardware mixer.
This should cope with all the playing that any GUI utilities might be doing. -- thinkpad: volume button weighting https://launchpad.net/bugs/39098 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
