'Twas brillig, and Brian J. Murrell at 21/01/11 17:10 did gyre and gimble: > A GUI widget would be more useful I think so that one could twiddle it without > having to drop to a command line. Yeah fair point. > But even more useful still would be to just use the peak reading mode and/or > make > the peak reading mode not consume 2-3Mb/s of bandwidth. I'm pretty sure it is set in pavucontrol (it certainly is in the code I have here), but perhaps something is preventing it from working in an ideal way. Keep in mind it'll be active for all the vumeters... so that is every sink, source, sink input and source output.... all in all that's quite a lot of vumeter! Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]