I wrote a little something... thought I'd share it

[darkrose0510]

I've been in a C mood for a for days, and fiddling with Gentoo on my laptop/netbook, I got to thinking I could use a simple little icon in Fluxbox's system tray that would open alsamixer. It kind of grew from opening an xterm, to embedding a terminal in a gtk window with menus.



If anyone's interested, the source is here. The usual configure, make, make install, will get it running.

[MikeTbob]

This is pretty cool, if I had any use for it, I would download it, but I hardly ever use Alsamixer, usually I setup my machine and hopefully I never need Alsamixer again.
What a nice dark Desktop you have.

[rokytnji]

Cool darkrose.

[Freston]

Cool, just what the doctor ordered. Something in my machine made kmix think it is muted, even though it's not. I have sound, but can't control volume through kmix since I had KDE crash on me yesterday.

So great thanks!!! I installed your fbmix and I can confirm it works on Slackware 12.2 using KDE4.1.3

I had some simple permission issues, but that I think had more to do with the insane settings on KDE and the problems I am experiencing there. At least, I was able to overcome them and it works.


I have just two small issue with your tool.
Everytime I close the fbmix screen in prompts that doing so doesn't quit the program. I can understand that, but after two or three times I am longing for a way to disable that. Yeah, I know, I can edit the source code (heheh, that's the first time I have said that). And maybe I will, cuz that would be the first thing I've done in C....
Also, pressing [esc] closes alsamixer but doesn't close the window. It would be very useful if pressing [esc] would close the window. I'm not even a newbie when it comes to C, would it be easy to make an adjustment there?



Also, I really like your screenshot. It looks a bit like my house (the house I want that is, not the house I have )

[darkrose0510]

What a nice dark Desktop you have.

Yeah it's the first dark desktop I've had that is actually usable The gtk theme is Kupo Finale Dark from gnome-look.

So great thanks!!! I installed your fbmix and I can confirm it works on Slackware 12.2 using KDE4.1.3

Woohoo banana! KDE is the last place I expected it to be used, but glad you're finding it usefull.

I have just two small issue with your tool.
Everytime I close the fbmix screen in prompts that doing so doesn't quit the program. I can understand that, but after two or three times I am longing for a way to disable that. Yeah, I know, I can edit the source code (heheh, that's the first time I have said that). And maybe I will, cuz that would be the first thing I've done in C....
Also, pressing esc closes alsamixer but doesn't close the window. It would be very useful if pressing esc would close the window. I'm not even a newbie when it comes to C, would it be easy to make an adjustment there?

Yep, both things I've noticed, I was thinking of putting a "Don't show this again" checkbox for the first, you can use File->Close or just click on the status icon for now though.
And I meant to fix the escape issue earlier, got distracted by something - it's not unusual - but yeah, making it close the window is what I was thinking too. Shouldn't be too hard, just gotta catch alsamixer when it closes, which I'm pretty sure there's a vte_terminal callback for.

Also, I really like your screenshot. It looks a bit like my house (the house I want that is, not the house I have)

You an' me both.

[Freston]

Woohoo banana! KDE is the last place I expected it to be used, but glad you're finding it usefull.

Well, you deserve a banana

As for KDE, well, I always have had my system set up conservatively with a focus on stability first and speed second but one of my partitions was gathering dust and I have five days off so I got bored and decided I'd be a geek and only go with the latest for a chance. It's not my main install, but the dual in the dual boot. Latest Slack, latest Linux (2.6.28-smp), and the latest KDE that I didn't have to build by hand. I even have compiz. Is it ever so slow and unstable, but oh boy it looks good

Yep, both things I've noticed, I was thinking of putting a "Don't show this again" checkbox for the first, you can use File->Close or just click on the status icon for now though.

Checkbox would be perfect! But I have no idea, would that not mean that it would need a ~/.configfile to write to? Not that that is a problem, but it might be easier to just put a line about this in the readme and get rid of the dialog all together.
Since you put this on the tubes it is good to add a warning, and the checkbox is a very good idea. If on the other hand it's just you and me, well I guess we can manage to remember how to close it

And I meant to fix the escape issue earlier, got distracted by something - it's not unusual - but yeah, making it close the window is what I was thinking too. Shouldn't be too hard, just gotta catch alsamixer when it closes, which I'm pretty sure there's a vte_terminal callback for.

If you come round to it be sure to post an update!

You an' me both.

If ever I get a house like that, you can stay in the guest wing

[darkrose0510]

Here ya go: http://sandbox.ltmnet.com/fbmix-0.1.1.tar.gz
get rid of the dialogs by starting it with "fbmix -q"
and hitting escape also closes the window.

[Freston]

That is just perfect!

An action shot: (note the uptime. I am one crash later, compiz )

[MikeTbob]

Freston, which utility is that, on the right side of your screen with the CPU, Memory and Network, I can't remember the name of the one I used,,,is it konky or something like?

[Freston]

It's GlassMonitor (0.3.2). It's a superkaramba thing, but it turns out to work in KDE4 also. The borders and background can be made to be fully transparent in KDE3.x (dunno about 4), so it blends in with the desktop real nice