alsa mixers

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

Volti has another feature: you get both the mixer and the tray applet, givng
all the features of the default GNOME sound applet with a far better mixer,
and working fine with ALSA by itself, with Jack not running and PA not 
running/not installed. Evejn the media sound up/down keys work, though
they are press and hold rather than multi-press, which is a little 
counterintuitive. You will hear the sound level change and see the tray applet
reflect the change, though GNOME's overlay won't open to show it.

Haven't tested controlling either through it, but I would imagine the master
(which the tray applet controls, set it in "preferences if it does not) would 
control ALSA's output just fine with no mattter what is using the sound card, 
PA or Jack included.

The onboard sound on my motherboard does give a wide mixer window, but
you can slide it off the left or right of the screen. No matter how wide it is,
you can therefore get to everything.  

The only real quirks are that you have to drop a script in one of the autostart
directories to start Volti at login, and you can quit it from the bottom of 4 options
on the right click menu on the applet. That could confuse a new user who might
accidently quit their volume control and not know how to restart it (from terminal
or from run dialog).

For a pretty GUI around alsamixer, alsamixergui is still out there, I've kept it
installed since my first audio editing machines for old time's sake. Smaller 
sliders, shows EVERYTHING by default. Works no matter what happens to
any other program, so long as ALSA is available. When I was last using pulseaudio,
it's claim on the soundcard made alsamixergui show only the master slider, don't
know if that's still the case when running PA.

On 05/07/2013 at 9:53 PM, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>On Tue, May 7, 2013 3:15 pm, Len Ovens wrote:
>
>>   Volti: someone has done some fixing on this. Last time I used 
>it the
>> faders were very wide. While they don't go as small as qasmixer, 
>they do
>
>Nope, depends on the machine... or really what the most complex 
>audio card
>on the machine is. On a machine with 30 + faders on one of the 
>sound cards
>it makes the window wide enough to fit that many faders even if 
>the card
>it is displaying has less. Pretty much unusable on this machine.
>
>-- 
>Len Ovens
>www.OvenWerks.net
>
>
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