On Sun, 23 May 2010, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 20:34 -0700, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: >> Since the list is so responsive, I thought I'd ask all my questions now. >> >> Is there a terminal-mode volume control app for pulseaudio, comparable to >> aumix? if not, I'd like to highlight that as a minor but significant >> oversight, particularly if the system has users with no GUI login. > > There are the command-line tools pactl and pacmd, but they aren't > comparable to aumix. Alsamixer is the closest alternative, but that's > not very good either with Pulseaudio. Would you like to write "aumix for > Pulseaudio"? > I did not know about pactl and pacmd. I'll dig into them, keeping in mind that the community has yet to produce an 'aumix' replacement and that I could contribute to such an effort. Would it be appropriate to write an ncurses (do people still use ncurses?) client that uses pactl as a backend? maybe something more integrated would be desirable. >> 'pavucontrol' works from a local terminal but doesn't seem to work when >> logged in remotely- I get a gnome dialog [so it's not an X problem] saying >> 'connection refused' > > I don't know off-hand what's wrong. What's the setup? So far I know that > you have a server and a client, and X is running on the client, and you > are trying to run pavucontrol on the server. The only client-server relationship is in X. I was expecting to control the remote machine's volume control using a dialog that would appear on the local machine's display: classic X11 forwarding. But this is not important or desirable to me anymore since I suspect I can accomplish my task using pactl. Thanks for your help. -Brandon
