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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773198 Title: Sound volume for applications can become locked below global output volume. Status in totem package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Normal behavior, as far as I understand, is for all applications to have the same sound volume unless you lower the volume for one manually in the applications section of the sound settings. However, some applications have their own own volume control that only affect the volume of themselves and the global output volume, not other applications. This can put those other applications below the global volume where they become stuck. An example: you have the output volume at 50%. Rhythmbox is locked to output volume and is also at 50%. Then you open a movie in totem. Sound volume is low for that movie so you use totem's volume slider to increase volume to 100%. When done you close totem and use the media keys on the keyboard to lower the volume back to 50%. Since rhythmbox stayed at 50% instead of following to 100%, it got stuck at half of global volume and after lowering is now down to 25%. It can never go above 50% with just the normal volume controls, you need to go into the applications section of the sound menu and move its volume slider to reset it to the same value as the global output volume. This is especially a problem since you might increase the global volume a lot in order to compensate for low volume, only for a newly opened application to start playing sound at way too high a volume, a danger to your ears and possibly your sound hardware. And a novice user is likely to not understand what's wrong with their audio all of a sudden, and feel forced to reboot to fix it. The same thing happens with the volume control in vlc so it's not just totem. --- ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-02 (23 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) LogAlsaMixer: Error: command ['/usr/bin/amixer'] failed with exit code 1: amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory NonfreeKernelModules: kpatch_livepatch_Ubuntu_4_15_0_20_21_generic_39 livepatch_livepatch_Ubuntu_4_15_0_20_21_generic_ nvidia_modeset nvidia Package: totem 3.26.0-0ubuntu6 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17 Tags: bionic Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/1773198/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
