On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:14:05 +0200 Pierre Couderc via enlightenment-users
<[email protected]> said:

> 
> On 8/12/25 08:21, Pierre Couderc via enlightenment-users wrote:
> >
> > On 7/30/25 21:40, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I'm using e  0.25.4 from Debian apt with  a Bluetooth speaker (Bose
> >>> SoundTouch).
> >>>    I can control the volume with|pavucontrol| or|pactl 
> >>> set-sink-volume|.
> >>>
> >>> However, the volume button  in Enlightenment has ni effect, Ican  see
> >>> the Bose in the mixer  but the button has no effect...
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way it get it working ?
> >> volume BUTTON? do you mean volume SLIDER? what do you mean but volume 
> >> button?
> >>
> >> have you selected the mixer gadget in your shelf (clicked on it) to 
> >> pop the
> >> popup up... in there will be a slider with the volume of the selected 
> >> sound
> >> output (sink) and a list of devices to use - select the one you want 
> >> to use
> >> then slide the slider around
> >> the gadget itself will allow mouse wheel to change volume on it too 
> >> without the
> >> popup. any bindings (key or mouse etc.) that use actions to 
> >> raise/lower volume
> >> will act on the chosen device. it your microphone is active (something
> >> recording e.g. a zoom meeting call) you will ALSO get a slider for 
> >> microphone
> >> volume. you will see a list of icons for the apps/clients/streams either
> >> playing output or recording in the mixer popup. you will also see a 
> >> vu meter go
> >> up and down based on the output sound or input sound above each 
> >> slider. e.g.
> >>
> >> http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-688a750f7828a9.26231333.jpg
> >>
> >> (no recording vu/slider bu it'll appear if its done and you can see 
> >> chromium
> >> has 1 output streams)
> >
> > Mmm, I use volume "button" and slider since years.
> >
> > With the built in analog audio device, the slider works fine
> >
> > I have installed a Bose bluetooth device which connects and works 
> > fine, with the e bluetooth gadget
> >
> > BUT with  the Bose device, the  volume slider has no effect ( but 
> > "muting" is muting).
> >
> > All this done without opening the mixer...
> >
> > It is not important for vlc which have its own slider. But it is 
> > important for system sounds, that I cannot control.
> >
> > And let us eliminate the hypothesis of an AGC on the Boose device, as 
> > I can lower the sound as I want, with the vlc slider.
> >
> > What do I miss ?
> >
> I add that this oxcurs with e.25.4 and too 0.27.1.

nothing has change in e here. the pulse backend basically calls
pa_context_set_sink_volume_by_index() on the sink. read the code. put some
printfs in ... find out. :)

> AND the the vumeter reflects the true level of the sound whatever the 
> position of the slider!

yes - vu meter shows the signal - not the volume assigned to the sink. you can
have volume at 1% and it'll show the same - as its the waveform/signal being
shown. 


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Carsten Haitzler - [email protected]



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