debian - Pulse Audio settings in XFCE

06
2014-04
  • Ich Und Nicht Du

    Almost every common graphical environment, I know, has a program/dialog where you can change the volume of your devices AND of every stream which is playing sound. But I'm not able to find such a dialog on Debian (jessie) XFCE. The only thing I find is a dialog where i can change the volume of the devices.

    I need to change this settings to configure which microphone Pulse Audio should use by default. I need to change that because the microphone isn't working and i think this is because Pulse Audio tries to get sound input from the wrong sound card.

    I already googled a lot about this problem but only found people which had other problems. But nothing i found did help me.

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  • Braiam

    You may have to install pavucontrol. XFCE is minimalist, so is expected that some settings are not found. To install it just type:

    sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

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  • Tom Wijsman

    I have got my audio card and alsamixer working on my Gentoo installation, as I'm too bored to visit that program all the time I need to make a subtle audio adjustment I'm looking forward to doing this with a volume control on my Xfce panel and/or the hardware audio keys just like I'm used to...

    So... How do I install a volume control in Xfce and get support for my hardawre buttons?

    I tried installing xfce4-mixer but I only seem to have an entry in Applications > Multimedia called Mixer which upon launching gives the following error:

    GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devices. Some sound system specific GStreamer packages may be missing. It may also be a permissions problem.

    Although I do have audio working...


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  • Keith

    Just do:

    emerge xfce-extra/xfce4-volumed

    If you have a volume knob or volume keys it should just work. you might also want:

    emerge xfce-extra/xfce4-notifyd

    To get a nice popup when you change volumes.

  • Tom Wijsman

    You are not asking the right question. Its not "in Gentoo" its in xfce or X.org

    You can read a general guide here: xfce special key bindings

    Now, tell me that you're talking about laptop buttons and not the ones on your keyboard and ill link you to an acpi guide. As to the second part of your question Id recommend you add your user to the audio group, log out and then back in.