On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:29:27 -0800
Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo:

>I've use it in conjunction with Audacity when doing recordings on
>other machines, but that's not what I'm looking for this time.
>These buttons are more general purpose in nature.

On my Xubuntu 16.04 laptop I use Pulseaudio volume control to set the
volume that I will hear when an application's volume control is set to
maximum. To figure out where to set Pulseaudio I open an application
(e.g., VLC) and play a video with the application at its maximum
volume. This probably results in distortion, so I slide the Pulseaudio
control back until the distortion is not audible to me. From then on I
just use the volume control in the application and never bother with
Pulseaudio. 

I use VLC a lot, and its volume control is great. You can use the
slider, but that is kind of hard to adjust precisely. A much better way
is to just use the mouse scroll wheel anywhere on the VLC window - very
accurate and easy to do. But I also use Banshee and the mouse scroll
wheel doesn't work. All you can do is the slider, and in Banshee it is
broken, that is, it works but you move it just a bit upwards and
suddenly the sound goes to zero, but then increases if you continue to
move it up. I wish they would just give me an option to set the volume
by typing a number in a box somewhere.

On my laptop there are also keyboard controls using the function keys
(mute, up, down), and they work, but to control volume at the level of
Pulseaudio, not at the application level. I never use them.
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