[dev] volume level in dwm taskbar
As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it outputs crap, that is difficult to awk. -- Tian
Re: [dev] volume level in dwm taskbar
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote: As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it outputs crap, that is difficult to awk. It isn't great, but I use 'amixer sget PCM' and awk from that. Or I use a little C utility I wrote which links to the (rather ugly) alsa library functions. Nick
Re: [dev] volume level in dwm taskbar
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote: As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it outputs crap, that is difficult to awk. It isn't great, but I use 'amixer sget PCM' and awk from that. Or I use a little C utility I wrote which links to the (rather ugly) alsa library functions. Nick you mean amixer sget Master, yes, that is way better, thanks! -- Tian
Re: [dev] volume level in dwm taskbar
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:07:48PM +0300, Le Tian wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote: As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it outputs crap, that is difficult to awk. It isn't great, but I use 'amixer sget PCM' and awk from that. Or I use a little C utility I wrote which links to the (rather ugly) alsa library functions. Nick you mean amixer sget Master, yes, that is way better, thanks! -- Tian I've implemented something along the lines of what Nick has described, but for wmii: you can take a look at my github to see how I did it: https://github.com/fadein/wmii_statusbar Of interest for you will be the file alsavolume.c I much prefer this way over running a pipeline with awk et. al. every couple of seconds if only to avoid PID bloat! -- Erik Falor Registered Linux User #445632 http://counter.li.org pgpNwSUweNX1g.pgp Description: PGP signature
