Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

[Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Adam Tauno Williams 
<awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:07 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> >  Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go 
> > all the way up to above
> >  100% without having to go into the sound settings. It would really 
> > like to see an option like
> >  that in Gnome-Shell as well. Since 100% is only 2/3 up what is 
> > possibly to set I often have
> >  to go into sound setting to get it loud enough my laptops and a 
> > couple of desktop systems as
> >  well.
>
> I can increase the volume above 100% in Sound Settings, but the drop
> down slider is limited to 100%.  I believe this is due what
> what-is-more-than-max can be a channel dependent issue - in Sound
> Settings you are adjusting the volume of the selected channel.

That is why an option to either let you use the desktop slider to go 
above 100% or not is a good idea.

> I use this regularly to be able to hear podcasts over the sound of the
> dish washer.

I have kids and need to outloud them, but need the sounds prefs to do 
so in Gnome! :)
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