On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Aidan Gauland <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > A few weeks ago, I got completely sick of having to use the mouse to use my > window manager, so I went hunting for an alternative, found StumpWM, tried it, > and never went back. That is, until I tried to adjust the volume with > alsamixer and nothing happened. I had to go back to Xfce and turn up the > volume all the way from the volume adjustment thingy on the panel, to be able > to adjust the volume from Stump with alsamixer. > > I know that there are a few different volume controls for ALSA (Master, PCM, > Front, etc.), and Xfce's panel volume control thingy was set to control/adjust > Master, so why does it seem that Xfce, a *desktop* *manager*, trumps > alsamixer, ALSA's official volume controls?! > > Xfce would have been purged from my system a while ago, if it wasn't for this.
But are you using something on top of alsa, like that plague they call pulseaudio?
