1 Title: PulseAudio flat volumes
2 Tags: en, pulseaudio, alsa, pulse audio, volume, master, flat volumes
4 Just a quick note because it took me ages to find out how to do it.
6 I don't really use the feature of pulseaudio__ that gives every application
7 their own volume instead of manipulating the master volume directly, and lately
8 it became more and more a problem, as I want to use applications like mpd__ or
9 xbmc__ that allow remote controlling, and for that having separate volumes makes
12 __ http://www.pulseaudio.org/
13 __ http://mpd.wikia.com/
16 I managed to fix it in mpd once, by using a mixed setup, using pulse as output,
17 but the hardware alsa mixer, but for xbmc I couldn't find a way.
19 So that made me think if I really wanted the split volumes thingy, and the
20 answer was **no**. After looking for hours for how to do it, the answer is
21 pretty trivial. Just edit ``/etc/pulse/daemon.conf`` and change the
22 ``flat-volumes`` option to **yes**.
26 .. vim: set et sw=3 sts=3 tw=80 fo+=lt1n: