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Hello. I've always wanted a volume manager to reside in the system for the lighter wm's such as icewm, fluxbox, etc. However, the closest I came was when I stumbled upon absvolume. It's a nice app and works well with some panels, but not with fluxbox. So after some searching I found the app I've always been looking for: volwheel. Simply hover your mouse over the icon and use the wheel to adjust or mute the volume. Right-click brings up a config menu and left-click brings up a built-in mixer. Here's how to install it on your system:

1. install "libgtk2-trayicon-perl" from the repo. Open a terminal as root and do:

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apt-get update
apt-get install libgtk2-trayicon-perl

2. get the source package from here

http://oliwer.net/b/volwheel.html

3. unpack the package using pcmanfm. navigate to your download directory and right-click on the file. then choose extract here.

4. install the package. open a root terminal. navigate to the extracted folder. do this command:

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./install.pl

5. add this line to your startup file using your favorite editor (or just use the control center to do this):

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volwheel &

6. logout/login

enjoy.

john

4. install the package. open a root terminal. navigate to the extracted folder. do this command:

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./install.pl

I didn't try it yet. I'll post back to say if it's ok.

It seems a nice replacement for absvolume in IceWM. The themes don't seem to work (Dynamic icon mode); while there's simple-blue and simple green in /usr/local/share/volwheel/icons/, there's no way to change from the default simple-blue (and I couldn't see the 'dynamic' feature working).

In FluxBox, I couldn't make it work because, when scrolling the mouse-wheel, it would change workspaces rather than changing the volume. Also left-click, that should open the mini-mixer, only made it flash quickly but not stay.
(but I seldom use FluxBox. I don't even know how the volume is changed there, maybe keyboard shortcuts)

in fluxbox you can use somewere in the desktop alt + mouse wheel up or alt+ mouse wheel down to raise or lower the volume

Not having a mouse I use a dockapp called Mixer.app in fluxbox, just load it in the slit set to the right hand side of the screen so always available.

I have this on my .icewm/keys:

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key "Alt+Ctrl+KP_Divide" aumix -v -5 # lower volume
key "Alt+Ctrl+KP_Multiply" aumix -v +5 # raise volume


IOW,
Windows key + / (in the numpad) to lower the volume
Windows key + * (also in the numpad to the right of the kbd)

No mouse? Do as IceM says but use the up/down arrows for the same effect.

ICE-M wrote:in fluxbox you can use somewere in the desktop alt + mouse wheel up or alt+ mouse wheel down to raise or lower the volume

Works for me! Nice.

I need some test subjects for a volwheel deb. Just install it as root with:

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dpkg -i volwheel-0.2.7.deb

The deb is zipped so the forum will accept it, so unzip with you favorite app.

The package installed fine. Thanks. Unlike my other boxes, when I click the mixer button on my laptop, the xfce mixer launches. It doesn't launch alsamixer or aumix on the other systems. You wouldn't know how to correct that would you?

john

Right click on the tray icon and select Preferences. In the general tab you should have a line for the mixer, just change it to alsa-mixer.

Oops! Thanks for that. They really should not have made it that obvious. I was actually looking at the code to see if I could edit some lines before installing.

Do you think you could add a .desktop file in your package (with an icon)? Thanks.

john

Gimme a little time. I will try and do it tonight. Let you know.

Ok John, the deb now has a .desktop file plus a few other things. I also tweaked the source a little so see if it will detect aumix for you instead of xfce4-mixer. Please let me know how it works for you.

macondo wrote:I have this on my .icewm/keys:

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key "Alt+Ctrl+KP_Divide" aumix -v -5 # lower volume
key "Alt+Ctrl+KP_Multiply" aumix -v +5 # raise volume


IOW,
Windows key + / (in the numpad) to lower the volume
Windows key + * (also in the numpad to the right of the kbd)

Any idea about how to change this to "Alt+Ctrl+<" and "Alt+Ctrl+>" (what's the key codes?) for volume control or even use the hardware buttons on laptop (mine is HP NC6000)?