RE: Pulseaudio and volume control
From: support-boun...@pidgin.im [mailto:support-boun...@pidgin.im] On Behalf Of dan Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:21 AM To: support@pidgin.im Subject: Pulseaudio and volume control Greetings. I'm using pidgin-2.5.6 and pulseaudio-0.9.15 and I'm having difficulty setting the volume of pidgin notification sounds. I use pavucontrol to set the playback levels for various apps / streams / whatever. The trouble is that pidgin's sounds are too short for me to be able to grab onto the volume slider in pavucontrol. Pavucontrol only displays a volume slider when a sound is being played, so pidgin appears for a very short period of time, then disappears again. After some searching around, I found a post along the same lines in the pulseaudio mailing list, where the response was that pidgin should use libcanberra for notification sounds, which would result in pidgin sounds going through the 'System Sounds' stream / whatever. 'System Sounds' are *always* visible in pavucontrol. I'm not 100% convinced with this answer however. Personally I would prefer to see pavucontrol display levels for apps even while they're not playing ( perhaps in another page ). Did you suggest this to the pavucontrol authros ? Are there any known solutions? Are there any plans to use libcanberra as per the suggestion mentioned above? Is there any dialog between pidgin pulseaudio communities on this issue? Thanks :) Dan ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
RE: Pulseaudio and volume control
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:05 +0200, David Balazic wrote: The trouble is that pidgin's sounds are too short for me to be able to grab onto the volume slider in pavucontrol. Pavucontrol only displays a volume slider when a sound is being played, so pidgin appears for a very short period of time, then disappears again. Why not try setting a custom sound that's longer (whatever sound file you have handy), play it, set the volume, and then change it back? Richard signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
RE: Pulseaudio and volume control
Am Montag, den 15.06.2009, 11:35 -0500 schrieb Richard Laager: On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:05 +0200, David Balazic wrote: The trouble is that pidgin's sounds are too short for me to be able to grab onto the volume slider in pavucontrol. Pavucontrol only displays a volume slider when a sound is being played, so pidgin appears for a very short period of time, then disappears again. Why not try setting a custom sound that's longer (whatever sound file you have handy), play it, set the volume, and then change it back? and do this everytime you want to change the volume? not really... daniel ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
RE: Pulseaudio and volume control
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:05:35 +0200, David Balazic wrote: Personally I would prefer to see pavucontrol display levels for apps even while they're not playing ( perhaps in another page ). Did you suggest this to the pavucontrol authros ? I'm getting my story straight first. That's why I posted here. I was also curious about whether there were plans to use libcanberra, as the pulseaudio people claim this is the 'proper' solution. But yes, I will be adding my voice to others who want streams to be slightly less transient in pavucontrol. Dan___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
RE: Pulseaudio and volume control
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:35:58 -0500, Richard Laager rlaa...@wiktel.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:05 +0200, David Balazic wrote: The trouble is that pidgin's sounds are too short for me to be able to grab onto the volume slider in pavucontrol. Pavucontrol only displays a volume slider when a sound is being played, so pidgin appears for a very short period of time, then disappears again. Why not try setting a custom sound that's longer (whatever sound file you have handy), play it, set the volume, and then change it back? Richard Doh! Yes that's a pretty obvious workaround. Thanks :) Dan ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
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Peace be with you, Over the years I have seen a pidgin bug sometimes. Instructions for backtracing are only for a few GNU/Linux distros and do not say where to get debugging symbols otherwise. It seems a bug exists with the display for default X setups, though I did export DISPLAY=0:0.0 and gdb reported a segmentation fault. I tried debugging but it says 'no symbol tables' a lot of times, though it does mention libgstreamer. Following is the display bug, which has been reported again this year, but I see no fix listed for. $ pidgin (pidgin:4199): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed Pidgin 2.5.6 ** (pidgin:4199): WARNING **: cannot open display: unset It mainly happens when I run X/KDE as root and pidgin non-root. Some people say not to run X as root, but I have used Unix/Linux 11 years and I am not going to: I would have to xterm login root most times, which is preposterous. On LinuxQuestions someone said remove .Xauthority, but root always makes it. I cannot figure out how I fixed this last time. I am not on the mailing list but if you add a report to the bug database or want me to try anything, just write me back here or privately to my same user name as this e-address but at gmail, which I check more often. Maybe within a couple weeks I will also check if the gmane group is this list. --David _ Find out what's HIP! Visit Hip Planet for news, shopping, forums, chatrooms, free personal and classified ads and much more! Get FREE E-MAIL! at HipPlanet now! It's all waiting for you, at http://www.hipplanet.com ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Pulseaudio and volume control
dan wrote: I was also curious about whether there were plans to use libcanberra, as the pulseaudio people claim this is the 'proper' solution. The use of libcanberra has been discussed before and shot down. Using said library gains us nothing that we need or want and just causes more maintenance work for us. John signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
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