________________________________ 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
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