>On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 00:38:02 +0100
>Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:34:16AM +0200, Igor Živković wrote:
> > On 10/04/2013 04:12 AM, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, I use raw alsa but now you got me interested in gvolwheel.
> > > Is it a GNOME specific application, or can it be run without any
> > > desktop environments?
> > 
> > It is GTK+3 specific which almost as bad as GNOME. :-)
> > 
>  LOL, but yes, gtk+-3 is heading that way.  Gvolwheel needs a
> windowmanager which provides a tray.  Works in icewm.  I don't use
> DEs.  It _only_ works with the default alsa output (/dev/mixer) -
> one of my boxes with an intel HDMI chip defaults to using HDMI which
> is useless for me : alsa can be overridden, but my attempts to force
> gvolwheel to work there only succeeded once - maybe I'll need to look
> for another lightweight volume control.
> 
>  The 0.7 version was gtk+-2, but I had to build gtk+-3 for audacious
> so I went with 1.0.
> 
> ĸen

First, sorry for the delay. I've only just now got to trying this
thing. Aaaand... how do you start this?

I was under the impression that you only type `gvolwheel' and that the
thing automatically starts and sprouts rainbows and what not. But I got
an enigmatic message that "Error opening mixer device". After delving
into the source, I determined that I need to pass it an argument and
experimented with '-d hw:1' (as per the --help text) and what not, but
to no awail. Sometimes ALSA reports something like

$gvolwheel -d /dev/mixer
ALSA lib control.c:882:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer
Error opening mixer device

othertimes I just get

$gvolwheel -d 'hw:1'
Error opening mixer device

I could dig deeper, but is there a known-to-work way to start it?

Oh, and BTW, the BLFS page on gvolwheel should be updated to also
include Glib as a dependency (although Glib is also a dependency of
GTK+-3). I tried all this with alsa-utils-1.0.24.2, GTK+-3.2.1,
Intltool-0.50.0 and XML::Parser-2.41.

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