Oh, I agree with you 100%. The issues I presented were not meant to disagree with what you were suggesting. Simply pointing out alsamixer shortcomings. It looks a little crude and it doesn't look like anything that "should" be used in a modern OS, but it is needed and it works.
I've needed to use alsamixer to get the mic working on the last 4 laptops I've purchased. Tim On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <[email protected] > wrote: > 2011/9/8 Tim Bernhard <[email protected]> > >> I agree. A link to sound preferences makes sense. >> The only issues I see are 1) alsamixer is not very intuitive and 2) it >> dumps users into a terminal which might scare the crap out of many of them. >> :) >> > > Completely agree that a terminal app scares a lot of people, but in > particular this one it's more friendly than it seems. In the interest of > making it more friendly i asked for how to show lxterminal without the menus > :) > And meanwhile we have nothing to do this job, alsamixer it's the best > candidate (as it's already in Lubuntu!). Maybe if there's time, the sound > applet could be connected to it somehow... but that's another story. > > -- > jpxsat > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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