Re: pulse audio , was Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-18 Thread Kent Fredric
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Nick Rout wrote: > > Those controls are in windows too, but not as poorly named sometimes. > > Also, often hidden from the volume mixer by default to stop confusing the newbs. -- Kent

Re: pulse audio , was Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-18 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Nick Rout wrote: > MUX - not sure in this context! Multiplexer - selects one of a number of sources to go to a destination. E.g. Select Mic, CD or Line input for recording

Re: pulse audio , was Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Don Robertson wrote: > Derek Smithies wrote: >> >> For those of you who do not know, pulse stands for "pathetic useless >> linux sound engineers". >> > > Well - that explains a lot. Sound is not something I care about too > much. I don't want to stream audio acros

Re: pulse audio , was Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-18 Thread Don Robertson
Derek Smithies wrote: For those of you who do not know, pulse stands for "pathetic useless linux sound engineers". Well - that explains a lot. Sound is not something I care about too much. I don't want to stream audio across the network or anything - I just have a couple of desktop speakers a

pulse audio , was Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-17 Thread Derek Smithies
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Nick Rout wrote: But are you using something on top of alsa, like that plague they call pulseaudio? Nick - you have jumped on raw nerve there. Audio on linux. Ten years ago, I started on linux, and got paid for my efforts. There were many comments from people like, "linux

Re: Xfce to Stump [SOLVED]

2009-11-16 Thread Aidan Gauland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > Can you confirm that the Master and PCM were unmuted as well as turned > up in alsamixer? > I.e. says "00" at the bottom rather than "MM". Ah, that was it. Thanks! Now I can comfortably remove Xfce. Thanks, Aidan -

Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-15 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Aidan Gauland wrote: > That is, until I tried to adjust the volume with > alsamixer and nothing happened.  I had to go back to Xfce and turn up the > volume all the way from the volume adjustment thingy on the panel, to be able > to adjust the volume from Stump wit

Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-15 Thread Aidan Gauland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hello, > > A few weeks ago, I got completely sick of having to use the mouse to use my > window manager, so I went hunting for an alternative, found StumpWM, tried it, > and never went back. That is, until I tried to adjust the

Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-15 Thread Aidan Gauland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: > But are you using something on top of alsa, like that plague they call > pulseaudio? Ew, lemme check... aidan: ~ 14:29:18$ dpkg-query -l '*pulse*audio*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked

Re: Xfce to Stump

2009-11-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Aidan Gauland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > A few weeks ago, I got completely sick of having to use the mouse to use my > window manager, so I went hunting for an alternative, found StumpWM, tried it, > and never went back.

Xfce to Stump

2009-11-15 Thread Aidan Gauland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, A few weeks ago, I got completely sick of having to use the mouse to use my window manager, so I went hunting for an alternative, found StumpWM, tried it, and never went back. That is, until I tried to adjust the volume with alsamixer and noth