'Twas brillig, and Tarantism at 07/03/11 20:19 did gyre and gimble: >>> > > The volume system on Maemo is a bit peculiar. The system volume doesn't >>> > > touch any sink volumes (except with bluetooth in HSP/HFP mode), all >>> > > volume control is done by adjusting stream volumes. If you want to use >>> > > the same volume as eg. the music player, set the media.role property of >>> > > the sink input to "x-maemo". That's a special role for pretty much >>> > > everything else than phone and event sound streams. >> > That figures. Thanks very much! > And works nicely. I won't say how long my dbus volume monitor class > work-around took to get working ... oh well. Ahh but the lessons learned are invaluable :) We've all been there! The value cannot be measured in lines of code of the final solution :) 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/]