Questions related to adjusting and controlling the volume level of a computer system.
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Save microphone and audio out volume levels in PulseAudio to a file that can be restored from
I have to fiddle around far too often to use Skype, and it's not clearly Skype's fault.
I want to work around the problem by saving the audio level settings to disk and restoring them.
Please tell me ...
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Sound icon not working
I am using Ubuntu 13.04. last time i installed Pulse-audio-4.0 after which a weird problem started with my sound icon.In sound icon there are two hyphens following the speaker like <|--
i clicked ...
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Is there some plugin for gnome-screensaver to control Banshee or another media player from the lock screen?
Is there some way to control a media player and the system volume from the lock screen (e.g. after waking from sleep)?
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Random volume changes after starting games
I've been having this problem for a while now, and even though I found a half-patch at some point perhaps someone can tell me how to properly solve it once and for all.
Essentially, certain games and ...
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Does anyone know how I can set the safe-volume for headphone in KDE?
I dont even know if this is the right term "safe-volume"....but I have just changed to KDE and before I used MATE. In MATE when I plugged in my earphones.....the system immediately set the volume to, ...
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Cant Download VolumeControl
I tried to download VolumeControl but this massage comes out
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
volumecontrol.app: Depends: gnustep-back0.22 (>= 0.22.0) but 0.22.0-1ubuntu1 is to be ...
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Resize Boot Device Volume [duplicate]
I'm Wondring how can I resize Boot Volume because it got 15GO of space and he use only 71.7MB only almost 0% of space. So I want to reduce This space and add it to principle Device "/"
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is it a bug in lightdm
When I mute the audio volume in lightdm, then log in, I have no audio in my logged in session. if I uncheck the mute check-box, the volume remains muted. The only way I can restore sound is to unmute ...
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How to disable popup volume bar?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity.
Is there a way to make the volume bar pop ONLY when I click on the sound icon and NOT when I use a hot key?
My problem is that when I'm running a fullscreen ...
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Audacious uses volume control when I've configured the media hotkeys
Using Ubuntu 12.10 on an Asus u30sd.
I've managed to get Audacious to recognize my laptop's media keys (fn-play, etc) for playback, but it also hijacks the volume hotkey, so I can't change the system ...
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Clicking on Sound in Settings causes settings to open repeatedly, Volume missing from top bar
Whenever I go into the system settings in ubuntu, and click on the sound button it causes the settings to open again whenever I close. It is solved by rebooting, but happens again whenever i go in to ...
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Keyboard Volume-Up Volume-Down shortcuts don't work [duplicate]
I can't get the volume button shortcuts to work on my Logitech K270 keyboard. Actually when I click them, I see the popup on the top left of the window but the volume is not changed...
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Lenovo X200s volume buttons stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04
I have Lenovo X200s and I have been using Ubuntu on it for several years now, it is running Ubuntu 12.04 since it was released in April 2012.
Everything was fine until a week or so ago volume buttons ...
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Gnome-sound-applet mouse wheel function is broken
I'm using Gnome Classic session in Ubuntu 12.10 and am running the gnome-sound-applet in order to have a volume control in the systray (tint2). Mouse wheel scrolling to change the volume doesn't seem ...
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automatically switch volume control to default card
Since I bought an external USB audio card, to be specific: Creative X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB I am struggling with this issue. Whenever I turn on the computer or plug in the card I need to switch the ...
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I don't have a volume taskbar icon&keyboard shortcuts not doing anything
I don't have a volume shortcut to my taskbar.
When I use my Logitech's VOL+ and VOL- keys, I see the transparent popup icon but the actual volume is not changing.
I tried experimenting with ...
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Volume muted until adjusted to 25-30%
I had a this problem with 12.04 when it came out and posted my question here, wich was linked to another question with the solution (for me, not for the other guy). I can't find any of those now.
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Prevent a fullscreen game from disabling the volume control keys
I just installed Puddle which automatically goes to full-screen when you start it. As soon as it starts, the keyboard shortcuts for increasing/decreasing the volume (Fn+F5 and Fn+F6) stop working. (I ...
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Replace default audio control with pavucontrol
Thanks to Ask Ubuntu, recently I discovered PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) and started using it with joy.
My question is this: is there a way to use it in place of the default audio control ...
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keyboard shortcut to “Output volume” in sound control [duplicate]
I sometimes want to increase the output volume on my laptop beyond 100 %. In order to do so I need to open "Sound" in "System Settings". I would like to set a keyboard shortcut to do that. I found out ...
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Set the initial sound volume at session login
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bits
I want to set the initial sound volume when I enter in my gnome session.
I have added this line set-sink-volume 1 30% in ~/.pulse/default.pa.
If I execute pacmd set-sink-volume 1 ...
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Notification Area Volume Slider not working
What I did
I ran apt-get purge python-qt and then apt-get install python-qt as I had some problems with it (while installing Ninja IDE). When I logged out and in, Apport came in saying "Error report: ...
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Per-application volume control
Is there a way to get per-application volume control similar to Windows 7? I am looking for a way to do this in both Lubuntu and Kubuntu.
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Missing volume app from notification area in Xubuntu 12.10 panel!
The volume control icon is missing from the panel. The n/w and battery icons are shown. When I try to edit the Notification Area from the Panel preferences I see the volume is not available as a known ...
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When a Bluetooth audio device auto-connects volume settings won't work until I manually select it
I have an Asus UX32VD running 12.10 and for audio I'm using a Big Jambox. They're paired and connect quickly every time. It also correctly directs audio to the Jambox every time it connects.
The ...
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Change keyboard shorcuts? alsamixer
I use "master mono" for my audio. I like using the volume up and volume down buttons on my keyboard but they only change "master" not "master mono". Anyway to change this?
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Function keys on an external keyboard
So I bought a keyboard for my laptop. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the function key (though I know many people say it's useless). On my laptop, I control volume with the function key and F9-11. How ...
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Line of Pixels 12.10
I there was a question asked a while ago, but still with no answer.
When I change the volume in Ubuntu 12.10 it has an orange line of pixels that appear for a second above the volume indicator(?) ...
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How can I adjust system volume from within XBMC?
While running XBMC, I can adjust the volume of the XBMC application itself. However, this volume is limited by the current system volume. For example, if the system volume is at 80% and XBMC is at ...
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KMix and Banshee and other applications
Is it possible to control individual applications in KMix (I'm using Kubuntu 12.10) without having to click 'Restore'? I'm hoping for an open-on-right-click temporary window. Also, how do you ...
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GNOME Alsa mixer bind controls
is there a way to bind controls in the GNOME Alsa mixer?
I would like to control the main speakers and the subwoofer channels together with a fixed ratio using the master slider (bound to my laptop ...
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Unity panel disappears for deciseconds when I set the volume through the panel icon
When I change the volume scrolling over the panel icon, really often the Unity panel disappears for deciseconds.
Thanks for the help!
Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
Unity: 5.18.0-0ubuntu1
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Low volume problems Asus Xonar DX [closed]
I have problems with my sound card, an Asus Xonar DX on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. To hear something, i need to set Ubuntu's volume at 100% and speakers volume at 75%.
At this moment i can barely hear ...
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adjust max possible volume in pulseaudio
Somtimes some sound/movie/music on my Ubuntu_12.04 system is at a very low volume by itself.
Henceforth I increase the volume of the sound output. I can use the following setting (see screenshot)
It ...
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How to reset setting of Wine, avoiding uninstalling all applications in it?
Foobar2000 volume slider stopped working in Wine
Sound is good but volume cannot be changed from the player's slider anymore.
Is there a setting in Wine that might have entailed this?
I have tested ...
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Quiet Sound on 12.10, ThinkPad T530
Everything in alsamixer is maxed. What other things can I try?
My audio device is:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev ...
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Why the volume of sound for ubuntu is much lower than windows in my laptop?
My Thinkpad X200 have both ubuntu 12.04 and windows 7 installed. The volume of sound for windows 7 works properly for me. In ubuntu the volume is too low, even if the volume is the highest.
So I want ...
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Command line volume control amixer has problems with muting
Because my laptop volume controls are state of the art in the field of bad usability, I decided to map two keyboard shortcuts to make my own volume controls. I found that amixer should be helpful:
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How to replicate the Volume Up/Down keyboard shortcuts?
I have a notebook with no dedicated (working) keys for volume, so I've set under the Shortcuts Settings to use Win+Up/Down to change volume. That's working fine and I get that nice popup showing the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 volume control not showing
I installed ubuntu 12.04 and everything was fine and working. Recently when I start my computer the sound controller in top bar is not working. If I click on volume control icon on top bar it doesn't ...
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Sound turns of even if the volume bar is not at zero
I have Ubuntu on a laptop, when i lower the volume it lowers the sound to a certain point where it just turns of, even though the volume bar is not at 0%, more like 10-20%.
This means that i can not ...
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Very low volume until the slider gets close to maximum
I'm not sure how to explain this... so bear with me.. I've had this issue since forever with my HP Pavilion laptop.
The volume slider works fine, except the volume output in general is very, very ...
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Where did the volume slider go? [closed]
i upgraded to 12.10 2 days ago and that time the volume slider in the sounds menu was perfectly present!
but the lst time i switched on the laptop,now its gone!
only "Volume" can be seen written!
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Volume control not working on one account
I am getting sound out of my speakers but, the volume control is not working and in the sound settings there is nothing listed in play sound through and test sound is not working. I am only having ...
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System starts without sound in Lubuntu
When I log in the sound is muted. Why is that?
This image is from the Xfce mixer, while the lxde volume does not show that the sound is off.
So, I can see the sound muted only in Xfce Mixer. But ...
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xubuntu sound indicator
I just installed Xubuntu 12.04 lts. I managed to get my keyboards volume keys working properly by going into settings manager and then xfce4-mixer. I changed the active card to get the speaker volume ...
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Sounds mutes/unmutes while using hotkeys for up/down the volume
After an upgrade my sounds key act weird. If I increase or decrease the volume with the hotkeys then it mutes the sounds on the first hit and unmutes with the new volume level on the second hit. does ...
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Volume level changes by itself [closed]
My volume level changes all by itself,without me touching physical buttons or the indicator or something at all.
It usually decreases the volume every 30 seconds or so,but sometimes it mutes it ...
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Ubuntu sound volume is 40% lower than in Windows
I have 2x 2.1 speakers connected to the computer where I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed. On the software side I've set all the volume controls to 100% with the alsamixer program.
The speakers have ...
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How do I see my system volume level when changing it?
Back when I used 10.04 LTS and would change my system volume via custom keyboard shortcuts I would always get a nice volume level box that would appear to the top right corner of the screen. I had ...
