Muting works, unmuting doesn't

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#1

Using Leap 42.1 (fresh install) on a Lenovo x230, using XFCE as Desktop

When muting the “Master” Channel, the “Speaker” channel also gets muted (respectively the “Headphone” channel if a headphone is plugged in). When unmuting “Master” the other muted channel stays muted. This is pretty annoying as this notebook features a dedicated mute button which is now useless as I always have to open up a mixer (xfce mixer or alsamixer) to get sound back – don’t get me wrong, this also happens when I mute master using software.

Is there any way to disable this behavior? (i.e. just muting “Master”, and nothing else)

#2

update, running

pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle

toggles the mutes as expected.
So I suspect some voodoo between alsa and pulseaudio going on…

#3

I’m not using XFCE, but perhaps pavucontrol is the way to go here.

This too:
https://software.opensuse.org/package/pasystray?search_term=pasystray

#4

Fixed it :slight_smile:
The culprit was xfce4-volumed. Uninstalled it, and bound the hotkeys to pactl in the keyboard settings myself.

#5

Well done!

#6

There is now a dedicated package for volumed with pulse audio -> xfce4-volumed-pulse from X11:xfce inofficial repo:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/

With that it just works perfectly without any further modifications.

#7

I very much what to use maikr’s advice:

There is now a dedicated package for volumed with pulse audio -> xfce4-volumed-pulse from X11:xfce inofficial repo:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/

With that it just works perfectly without any further modifications.

But I do not know how to proceed from the link.
I do understand I have to choose the option openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ because that is my operating system But I do not know what to do with that or how to research for it.
Thanks.

#8

If you’re using XFCE already, then he required repo should already be present, and it can be installed with

zypper in xfce4-volumed-pulse

The repo URL (for openSUSE 42.2) is
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/