How to have a volume control/widget in Awesome WM?

Question

Simple question but hard answer, i searched around in Google a solution to make a dynamic widget to control and see the volume with Awesome Window manager but i can't find a working solution.

Any one got a solution to this ?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 26 '19 at 05:42

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I simply followed the tutorial at http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Volume_control_and_display and it worked. However, volume control was only via keyboard. Is this what you were looking for?

I should note that I'm on debian (testing) which I think uses awesome 3.4.

-- Update: After some testing out, I found http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Farhavens_volume_widget, which has mouse controls (scroll mouse to control volume, and click to toggle mute). Following the tutorial works on my box.

edited Oct 26 '19 at 05:42

Codebling

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answered Oct 17 '13 at 07:30

jumpwah

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Works great except the mute function, it mutes my sound but another click don't unmute it ... – x_vi_r Oct 17 '13 at 20:16
Same, but it's a bug with amixer I think; https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/878986. For me the command amixer sset Master toggle or amixer -d pulse set Master 1+ togglemute both work to toggle mute. – jumpwah Oct 17 '13 at 21:53
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So to get the click to work, insert your working command in the line starting with io.popen (in the else statement, in the volume function). For example, my line for that is io.popen("amixer -D pulse set Master 1+ togglemute"):read("*all") (Mistake in the previous comment which I cannot edit anymore: should be amixer -D not amixer -d). – jumpwah Oct 17 '13 at 21:59

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '17 at 14:09

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I'd like to mention following implementations just in case somebody is interested to have a volume control widget compatible with Awesome WM 4+:

screenshot

From left to right:

All three widgets support mouse control: scroll up/down - increases/decreases volume, click - toggles mute.

answered Oct 18 '17 at 14:09

streetturtle

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Much better answer with newer awesomes. – pattivacek Jan 12 '18 at 15:07

Arjun Gopkumar · Answer 3 · 2020-07-05T12:59:46.117

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If you have media keys you can use this

awful.key({}, "XF86AudioRaiseVolume", function () awful.util.spawn("amixer -D pulse sset Master 2%+", false) end),
awful.key({}, "XF86AudioLowerVolume", function () awful.util.spawn("amixer -D pulse sset Master 2%-", false) end),
awful.key({}, "XF86AudioMute", function () awful.util.spawn("amixer -D pulse sset Master toggle", false) end),

in globalkeys in your rc.lua script

edited Jul 05 '20 at 12:59

answered Nov 10 '19 at 18:48

Arjun Gopkumar

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This was pretty much exactly what I needed, thanks. The only thing is on the lower volume I needed to change the "+" to a "-", otherwise volume down would increase the volume. – Tvo Jun 29 '20 at 16:22
Noted, i have edited it – Arjun Gopkumar Jul 05 '20 at 13:00

Codebling · Answer 4 · 2019-10-27T17:25:50.177

volumeicon worked out of the box for me. Note that this is not an AwesomeWM widget but a standalone project written in C. The advantage of this over the Awesome widgets are:

can use mouse to interact with widget and adjust volume (scroll wheel or dragging volume bar)
works out of the box with PulseAudio and multiple output sinks
configurable notifications when volume is adjusted (GTK+-style or FreeDesktop-style notifications, or none at all)
opens a mixer of your choice on middle click

If you'd prefer a pure Lua Awesome widget, here is a list of available ones:

awesome-zen
streetturltle widgets (3 styles: 1, 2, 3)
lain (2 styles: 1, 2)
vicious
blingbling
obvious

How to have a volume control/widget in Awesome WM?

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