On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 01:59:14PM -0700, meeotch wrote:
Is there any way of having finer control over volume? If I scroll on the button, it moves by 5%. If click on +/-, it moves by a ridiculous 20%. If I grab it and drag it, I can sometimes get 2-3%, but it's incredibly fiddly and I often have to overshoot in both directions a couple of times before I can "nudge" it from odd to even or whatever, in order to then drag it back to the next highest 1%. Using the (very excellent, if simple) Banshee Remote android app, I get 10%.
I don't have a solution for Banshee, but I have this handy little script that nudges the Pulseaudio volume by just the amount you need. Stick it in ~/bin, and then use it like: Bump volume by 1%: $ ctrl-volume +1 Decrease volume by 1%: $ ctrl-volume -1 I used this mainly as a command to feed into the keyboard shortcuts as a secondary volume control mechanism. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
#!/bin/sh
sink="$(pactl info | sed -n 's/Default Sink: //p')"
volume_sinknum="$(pactl list sinks | awk -v wanted_sink="$sink" '
$1 == "Sink" {sinknum = gensub("^#", "", 1, $2)}
$1 == "Name:" {name = $2}
name == wanted_sink && $1 == "Volume:" {
print gensub("%$", "", 1, $3) ";" sinknum
}')"
volume=${volume_sinknum%;*}
sinknum=${volume_sinknum#*;}
inc="$1"
[ -z "$inc" ] && exit
target_volume=$(($volume + $inc))
if [ $target_volume -gt 100 ]; then
target_volume=100
fi
pactl set-sink-volume "$sinknum" "$target_volume%"
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