Re: [gnome-love] Retrieve sound settings

[Tony Freeman <t0ny fr33man gmail com>]

I can see the utility of needing to test and then set the volume.  I have users in my office that miss alerts and alarms because the volume has been turned down on their machines.  So what I do these days in my shell scripts is to turn up the volume and also provide a visual alert.

On Aug 16, 2011 1:18 PM, "Bastien Nocera" <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 15:39 +0200, Juan Rafael Garcia Blanco wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to retrieve the volume setting of alerts. I've done a
>> search using d-feet to check if some module exposes that setting, but
>> I could not find anything. I have also checked dconf, and found
>> nothing. I have read some of the gnome-control-center source code
>> relating to sound settings, and it seems to use hardwire pulseaudio.
>> Then I have two questions: does Gnome use definitely pulseaudio as
>> audio server (I mean on every linux/bsd distribution)? and is there
>> some way to retrieve the information I want without dealing with
>> pulseaudio APIs?
>
> We use the PulseAudio settings for that. Any particular reason why you
> would want to get that volume? If it's just to play some sound at that
> volume, there's easier ways to do it (like not caring, and playing the
> sound saying you are an event sound).
>
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