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** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773198
Title:
Sound volume for applications can become locked below global output
volume.
Status in totem package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Normal behavior, as far as I understand, is for all applications to
have the same sound volume unless you lower the volume for one
manually in the applications section of the sound settings. However,
some applications have their own own volume control that only affect
the volume of themselves and the global output volume, not other
applications. This can put those other applications below the global
volume where they become stuck.
An example: you have the output volume at 50%. Rhythmbox is locked to
output volume and is also at 50%. Then you open a movie in totem.
Sound volume is low for that movie so you use totem's volume slider to
increase volume to 100%. When done you close totem and use the media
keys on the keyboard to lower the volume back to 50%. Since rhythmbox
stayed at 50% instead of following to 100%, it got stuck at half of
global volume and after lowering is now down to 25%. It can never go
above 50% with just the normal volume controls, you need to go into
the applications section of the sound menu and move its volume slider
to reset it to the same value as the global output volume.
This is especially a problem since you might increase the global
volume a lot in order to compensate for low volume, only for a newly
opened application to start playing sound at way too high a volume, a
danger to your ears and possibly your sound hardware. And a novice
user is likely to not understand what's wrong with their audio all of
a sudden, and feel forced to reboot to fix it.
The same thing happens with the volume control in vlc so it's not just
totem.
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