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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 4:35 pm    Post subject: Help with Sound Reply with quote

Hello guys!
Sorry for the noob question... :oops:
But how can I set up a general sound controller in XFCE? Right now, every time I want to change the audio output channel, I have to edit .asoundrc, and then restart any open program to get the sound output on the new channel.
I finally got sound out of the Bluetooth headset, but I don't have a channel to change the volume for it in ALSA Volume Control, and the sound from every program is still going through the speakers. The only way I can listen through the Bluetooth headset is using:
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mpv --audio-device=alsa/bluealsa file.flac


So I'm wondering, how can I get a general volume controller that detects when I connect my Bluetooth headset or when I just want to switch from one channel to another without having to restart the program?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2025 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

Please post the output of :
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$ emerge --info xfce-base/xfce4-meta
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 11:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi netfab, thank you for your response.

Here it is the pastebin.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, sorry!
This has never happened before. I think it's worth mentioning that I didn't install xfce-base/xfce4-meta. However, the output of emerge -p xfce-base/xfce4-meta is as follows:
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emerge -p xfce-base/xfce4-meta

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 2.97 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.20.0::gentoo USE="X thunar -libnotify -wayland" 2,439 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libburn-1.5.6-r1::gentoo USE="-debug -static-libs" 973 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libisofs-1.5.6_p1-r1::gentoo USE="acl xattr zlib -debug -static-libs -verbose-debug" 859 KiB
[ebuild N ] app-cdr/xfburn-0.7.2::gentoo USE="udev -gstreamer" 1,275 KiB
[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.20::gentoo USE="cdr svg upower -archive -calendar -editor -image -media -minimal -mpd -pulseaudio -remote-fs -search" 0 KiB

Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 5,544 KiB

In other words, all the packages that would be installed by xfce4-meta are already installed, except for these.

I don't know if it helps but here are all the packages I installed from xfce:
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grep xfce /var/lib/portage/world
x11-terms/xfce4-terminal
xfce-base/thunar
xfce-base/thunar-volman
xfce-base/tumbler
xfce-base/xfce4-appfinder
xfce-base/xfce4-panel
xfce-base/xfce4-power-manager
xfce-base/xfce4-session
xfce-base/xfce4-settings
xfce-base/xfwm4
xfce-extra/thunar-archive-plugin
xfce-extra/xfce4-alsa-plugin
xfce-extra/xfce4-screensaver
xfce-extra/xfce4-screenshooter
xfce-extra/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin


To avoid wasting more time with Pastebin bugs, I'll paste the output of 'emerge --info' directly here. I hope you don't mind! (I tried to create another link on Pastebin, but the same issue happened.)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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In other words, all the packages that would be installed by xfce4-meta are already installed

Not all the packages. If you had installed xfce-base/xfce4-meta with useflag pulseaudio on, xfce-extra/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin would have been pulled in.
https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin/start

Then, with media-sound/pavucontrol installed you'll get an audio mixer.
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