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PostPosted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:05 pm    Post subject: openbox system sounds volume Reply with quote

I am using Openbox and pulsaudio. I control volume levels with pavucontrol.
In the pavucontrol app I usually control individual app volume in the Playback tab or directly in the application that is generating the audio. This all works.

However, how do I control the volume so system sounds? (The volume control in the Output Devices tab of pavucontrol does work but it changes the volume for all applications.) There does not seem to be any sort of system sounds entry in pavucontrol Playback tab.

What I really want to do: cut the volume of the "drip" sound when I make a mistake in an xterm window.

Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2024 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could not find a good answer so here is my hack to "fix" system sounds:

I decided to remove system sounds if I could not control the volume of those sounds. (This does not affect other sounds: ex: video play back, videos in Firefox, games etc.)

In pavucontrol: in the "Output Devices" tab: For each output audio device listed there is a check box: "Set as fallback": I checked an output audio device that I never use. Now the first time you use any application that has audio out you will need to tell Pulse Audio to send the audio to a device you are listening to: In pavucontrol playback tab: change the "Playback stream on" to your audio device, not the "default" set above. This is a little cumbersome but finally I don't hear the system error sound every time I do something "wrong" in an xterm window.
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