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Veromix - volume control / soundmenu

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

Description:

Veromix is a mixer for the Pulseaudio sound server.

Features:
- Media player controls (aka nowplaying)
- per application voluem control (replay & record)
- global hotkeys
- can life in system tray
- switch sound card profiles (for ex. from regular to HDMI)
- control LADSPA effects (equalizer and other effects)
- keyboard navigation (use Tab- and Arrow-keys)

Quickstart:
- middle click on panel icon mutes the default output
- mouse wheel over panel icon increases/decreases volume
- drag and drop playback streams between different output devices
- right click context menu:
-- kill playback streams
-- set default output device
-- set per channel volume
-- switch sound card profiles
- assign hotkeys
- click the add icon (bottom-right) to add a new effect
(drag and drop playback stream to the effect sink)

More Info:
- Howto: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/how-to-increase-volume-over-100-in-kde/
- YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fph8xqsJd_g
- Review: http://padoca.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/kmix-veromix-qml-and-other-stories/
- Review: http://techlaze.com/2011/08/best-plasma-widgets-kde/

FAQ:
- Disable KMix: Set "AutoStart=false" in "[Global]" section of .kde/share/config/kmixrc

Requirements:
- plasma-scriptengine-python
- python-xdg
- python-qt4-dbus
- pulseaudio
- swh-plugins / ladspa-swh-plugins (for equalizer and other effects)
- ladspa-sdk / ladspa (dynamically detect installed ladspa plugins)

Changelog: http://code.google.com/p/veromix-plasmoid/source/browse/Changelog

Packages:
- Debian: http://packages.debian.org/plasma-widget-veromix
- Arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60883
- openSUSE: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=plasmoid-veromix&project=KDE%3AExtra

Please report bugs/wishes here: http://code.google.com/p/veromix-plasmoid/issues/list

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MelonBlue
10 years ago

Hum, I actually meant rather the ability of using the Fn-keys for lowering or raising the volume..that would make veromix perfect for me :)

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nik3nt3
10 years ago

hmm - you can assign any key (-combo) you want. Is kde not recognising your FN-Keys?

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MelonBlue
10 years ago

oh lol. I was stuck in the veromix config dialog - no wonder I didn't find anything there. stupid me. working now, sorry for the confusion :)

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adibudeen
10 years ago

That's exactly what I've been waiting for. Thank you!

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groo
10 years ago

this last version is even better then the previous one, im impressed, keep up the good work.

it would be awesome if you could submit this to the 4.6 release.

best regards

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nik3nt3
10 years ago

thx - dont know how to do that - and feature freeze for 4.6 has just started?

/nik

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groo
10 years ago

AFAIK, you would need to go to #kde or #kde-devel in freenode and talk to the devs, to see how you could submit this to kde upstream, prolly it would go to the playground repo first, but i think this would be a very useful addition to main KDE :)

best regards :)

ps, im still missing the ability to up the volume above 100% (like gnome volume), besides that im happy as a clam :D

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nik3nt3
10 years ago

@ps: I added your wish to my bugtracker - but I still have no clue on how to achieve that (with pulseaudio) - Do you have some links?

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groo
10 years ago

im only able to do it with the gnome volume control, pavucontrol doesnt appear to have that feature, maybe its gnome only?

best regards

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quadra
10 years ago

I can start plasmoid with
~/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/dbus-service/VeromixServiceMain.py
and
plasmoidviewer .
and it works fine in a window but if i try to add it to the desktop it shows me a box with:
Object could not be created...
Script initialization failed

strange as it works with above commands....

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nik3nt3
10 years ago

There is a problem with the ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/metadata.desktop file of veromix and your environment.

Which version of KDE and veromix are you using?

In KDE 4.4 metadata.desktop should define:
ServiceTypes=Plasma/PopupApplet

In KDE 4.5 and above:
ServiceTypes=Plasma/Applet,Plasma/PopupApplet

Newer versions of veromix implement a workaround for this bug. But I looks like it's not working in your environment.

Maybe it helps if you uninstall and reinstall it using:
plasmapkg -r veromix-plasmoid
plasmapkg -i <downloaded file>

If that does not help you might want to check ~/.xsession-errors for more info about the problem.

Can we continue discussing this issue here: http://code.google.com/p/veromix-plasmoid/issues/list

/nik

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Krog
10 years ago

same problem here (gentoo, kde 4.5.3)

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nik3nt3
10 years ago

can you try to launch plasmoidviewer not from the veromix-plasmoid directory:

cd /tmp
plasmoidviewer veromix-plasmoid

does it also fail and if yes: o you get some debugging output?

/nik

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mschnide
10 years ago

On debian it fails perhaps, because the package:
python-xdg
is needed (it was the error on my system.)

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splippity
10 years ago

I cannot get this to work on Arch Linux.

I have plasma-scriptengine-python as its part of kdeworkspace
and I have Pulseaudio installed.
but I dont know about python-xdg
as I google and cannot find any refernce to it.
When I try to load the widget I get the following message:
There is a problem with the background-service.
If you just upgraded try killing the process VeromixServiceMain.py
If you dont know how to do that try restarting.
I end up with a giant speaker icon that does nothing.

Thanks.

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nik3nt3
10 years ago

Hi

Most probably you are using python 3 (which is not supported).

I added your reports to my bug-tracker:

http://code.google.com/p/veromix-plasmoid/issues/detail?id=12

and

http://code.google.com/p/veromix-plasmoid/issues/detail?id=13

Can we continue discussing this issue there? (I already posted a possible workaround for the problem there)

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splippity
10 years ago

found the package as: pyxdg
but that didnt help it either.

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splippity
10 years ago

I tried to run the command stated up the page to help troubleshoot and I get the result of:

~/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/dbus-service/VeromixServiceMain.py
File "/home/smokey/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/dbus-service/VeromixServiceMain.py", line 44
print "main loop"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

which was uneventful. maybe this helps

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splippity
10 years ago

with the other command I get:

plasmoidviewer
plasmoidviewer(10041)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0)
plasmoidviewer(10041)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0)
veromix icon installed
Outputting dbus-servie file
Couldn't find node center. Skipping rendering.
QWidget::setMinimumSize: (/Plasma::Dialog) Negative sizes (-1,-1) are not possible
QWidget::setMinimumSize: (/Plasma::Dialog) Negative sizes (-1,-1) are not possible
QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/smokey/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/contents/code/VeroMix.py", line 278, in hoverMoveEvent
self.trigger_volume_updates()
File "/home/smokey/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/contents/code/VeroMix.py", line 285, in trigger_volume_updates
self.pa.trigger_volume_updates()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'trigger_volume_updates'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/smokey/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/contents/code/VeroMix.py", line 278, in hoverMoveEvent
self.trigger_volume_updates()
File "/home/smokey/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/contents/code/VeroMix.py", line 285, in trigger_volume_updates
self.pa.trigger_volume_updates()

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that goes on and on and on.

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panzi
10 years ago

This plasmoid is really nice! :)

One thing I'd like to have, though, is to be able to assign global hotkeys with which you could increase/decrease the volume of and mute the default audio device so I can use the media keys on my keyboard (as I can with kmix). Of course this should also show the same/a similar OSD as kmix.

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nik3nt3
10 years ago

This works perfectly for me with the Hotkeys of KMix..
Configure your hotkeys for KMix and the plasmoid will react on volume-changes..
/nik

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panzi
10 years ago

Even if you close kmix? What KDE version do you use? I use:

Qt: 4.7.0
KDE Development Platform: 4.5.2 (KDE 4.5.2)
KMix: 3.7

When I close kmix and press the keys with which I change the sound using kmix (mediakeys on my keyboard) nothing happens. Mainly I want a replacement for kmix because sometimes it hangs with 100% CPU usage. Also being able to change volume per application with the sound applet is pretty neat.

However, there is another thing:
When I scroll over the popup window of your applet I would expect the volume of the slider I scroll on to change. Instead the sliders them self move out of sight, just to move in again.

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nik3nt3
10 years ago

Noted your wish: http://code.google.com/p/veromix-plasmoid/issues/detail?id=16

The scrolling issue will be fixed in the next release (already fixed in svn)

/nik

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panzi
10 years ago

Great! :)

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robyshot
10 years ago

first of all this plasmoid is very cool!
what i'd like it to have is autohide function after moving the mouse away (so it'd be not necessary to click on its icon to close the window)

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