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  • December 14, 2020 at 11:07 pm #47449
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      At the moment my volume icon controls the volume of the internal audio card. But I’m using external USB card for convenience . Weird thing is volume icon consumes one of my CPU cores entirely. Any reason to do that ?

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      December 14, 2020 at 11:23 pm #47452
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        Maybe it was updated (or modified) while running and not reloaded afterward. It seems like the process is hung.

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        December 15, 2020 at 1:37 am #47457
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          Para evitar malentendidos permítame expresar en mi idioma. Recuerdo haber visto este bug hace tiempo,

          “If you unplug your soundcard, volumeicon goes into an infinite loop when ALSA can’t see the card. This causes CPU usage to go to 100%
          (bug is also in ‘official release 0.5.0’ – the code responsible for this hasn’t changed at all even in Git release)”

          La instalación full de antiX instala por defecto,

          volumeicon-alsa-icons/buster,buster 0.1.0 all
  Extra icons for volumeicon-alsa-legacy

volumeicon-alsa-legacy/buster 0.4.6-2.4 amd64
  systray volume icon for alsa

          Ignoro si incluye el parche, Pass G_IO_ERR to asound_poll_cb … Si este es el problema, posiblemente una solución sea remover volumeicon-alsa-legacy e instalar la versión,

          volumeicon-alsa/buster 0.5.1+git20170117-1mx17+1 amd64
  systray volume icon for alsa

          Como nota final debo mencionar que no es necesario volumeicon* para controlar el audio del sistema (aumentar/disminuir),

          #key "XF86AudioLowerVolume"	amixer sset Master 5%-
#key "XF86AudioRaiseVolume"	amixer sset Master 5%+
#key "XF86AudioMute"		amixer sset Master toggle

          Esto es posible si las teclas multimedia son reconocidas por el sistema.

          Saludos.

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          December 15, 2020 at 10:19 am #47484
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            userzero wrote:
            #key "XF86AudioLowerVolume"	amixer sset Master 5%-
#key "XF86AudioRaiseVolume"	amixer sset Master 5%+
#key "XF86AudioMute"		amixer sset Master toggle

            Esto es posible si las teclas multimedia son reconocidas por el sistema.

            Saludos.

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            With my T430 laptop the above won’t work running antiX 19. I use the below and all media keys work. Also this using i3wm..

            bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec –no-startup-id “amixer -q sset Master,0 2+ unmute”
            bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec –no-startup-id “amixer -q sset Master,0 2- unmute”
            bindsym XF86AudioMute exec –no-startup-id “amixer -q sset Master,0 toggle”

            December 15, 2020 at 1:16 pm #47487
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              After doing the alsamixer dance, this works for me:

              #Sound
              key “Ctrl+Down” amixer -q set Master 9%- # lower volume
              key “Ctrl+Up” amixer -q set Master 9%+ # raise volume

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