Re: Pulse audio volume control with multimedia keys

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:50:47 +0100
Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/11/15 05:08, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:35:55 +0100
> > Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> I've just installed Fedora 23 XFCE and it seems volume control of
> >> PulseAudio is still problematic when trying to use 'multimedia
> >> keys' on my laptop. (This relates to the internal sound card).
> >>
> >> xfce4-volumed seems to have a problem with PulseAudio in that if
> >> one mutes audio it can't be unmuted.
> > ...snip...
> >
> > Can you try with xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin instead of xfce4-volumed?
>
> Thanks kevin, that's exactly what I needed!
>
> For some reason I wasn't thinking a panel plugin would provide
> keyboard shortcut functionality as well.
>
> Maybe the two functionalists could be decoupled? i.e. a user might
> want to control pulseaudio volume via multimedia keys but not want to
> have the panel plug-in too?

Well, you are welcome to suggest this to the upstream
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin maintainers. I don't know how closely tied
things are.

kevin