Produce a sound when changing volume?

orschiro · 2017-11-30 16:27:53

Coming from Ubuntu I really love the fact that changing the volume actually produces a sound.

Very useful when using headsets so that I know how loud my settings are to not get a loud surprise.

Is this supported by Xfce? :-)

Thank you!

alcornoqui · 2017-12-12 23:40:13

I tried to help, so I made a couple searches, but... sorry.

The funny thing is that all the related results were about how to disable the feature!

Plain Ubuntu, KDE, Cinnamon, there are people out there trying to get rid of it, but you seem a bit lonely missing it.

Again, sorry not being of help, or perhaps you made it work? If so, damn, NOW I want to know how smile

sixsixfive · 2017-12-13 02:03:12

shouldnt a sound not play automatically if you have installed the canberra gtk module and the freedesktop sound theme?

also another solution would be to set custom shortcuts in xfce settings

eg:

/bin/sh -c "amixer sset Master 5%+ && ogg123 /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-volume-change.oga"

orschiro · 2017-12-13 06:15:47

Thank you! I will try installing the Canberra GTK module and the freedesktop sound theme.

ToZ · 2017-12-14 00:33:57

I don't believe libcanberra will help - it doesn't support volume events. For a list of supported events, see: http://git.0pointer.net/libcanberra.git … dule.c#n42. You may need to resort to something like sixsixfive's second suggestion to get those events to happen, or petition the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin developer to add them in.

sixsixfive · 2017-12-14 04:06:40

ToZ wrote:

I don't believe libcanberra will help - it doesn't support volume events.

oh you are right also in that case i would go either keyboardshortcuts + custom commands (also you could write a script that monitors the current volume and plays a sound if something changes) or you could use volume icon( http://nullwise.com/volumeicon.html ) or pnmixer (https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/wiki) they wont play a sound on volume change but they can popup a window(volumeicon) or a libnotify notification if the volume changes.

orschiro · 2017-12-14 07:36:40

ToZ wrote:

I don't believe libcanberra will help - it doesn't support volume events. For a list of supported events, see: http://git.0pointer.net/libcanberra.git … dule.c#n42. You may need to resort to something like sixsixfive's second suggestion to get those events to happen, or petition the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin developer to add them in.

That's a very good idea!

Let's see what the developers have to say: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14087

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