Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 16:41 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Adam Tauno Williams 
> <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:07 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> > >  Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go 
> > > all the way up to above
> > >  100% without having to go into the sound settings. It would really 
> > > like to see an option like
> > >  that in Gnome-Shell as well. Since 100% is only 2/3 up what is 
> > > possibly to set I often have
> > >  to go into sound setting to get it loud enough my laptops and a 
> > > couple of desktop systems as
> > >  well.
> > I can increase the volume above 100% in Sound Settings, but the drop
> > down slider is limited to 100%.  I believe this is due what
> > what-is-more-than-max can be a channel dependent issue - in Sound
> > Settings you are adjusting the volume of the selected channel.
> That is why an option to either let you use the desktop slider to go 
> above 100% or not is a good idea.

To what?  10,000% 100,000% ?   If you want to do something like this
going to settings seems reasonable to me.

> > I use this regularly to be able to hear podcasts over the sound of the
> > dish washer.
> I have kids and need to outloud them, but need the sounds prefs to do 
> so in Gnome! :)

You can do this in GNOME - via Sound Settings.