Description -------------------------------------------------------------- AlsaMixer.app is a mixer utility for Linux systems with ALSA sound driver. It is designed to be docked in Window Maker (and other wms). This utility has three volume controllers that can be configured to handle any sound source, he default sources are 'Master', 'PCM' and 'CD' volume. Sound sources can be easily muted and there is also wheel mouse support. The whole GUI and command parsing was taken from Mixer.app (see old doc for URL's), only connection to ALSA driver was added. Hints -------------------------------------------------------------- Error led: If the led on Mixer.app is red an error message has been printed to stderr and something is not working correctly. If the led is green everything is working ok. (Error led doesn't work in AlsaMixer.app, TODO) Mute: Right click on a volume controller to mute the sound source. The button will then have a red led in one corner. Right click again to restore the volume. If a muted sound source is modified by another application Mixer.app will automaticaly release its muted state. Wheel mouse: If you have a wheel mouse (where the wheel is configured as Button4 and Button5) you can control the volume by just moving the mouse over Mixer.app and roll the wheel up and down. Use the command line option -w to specify which slider that should react to the wheel movement. Label: If you run multiple instances of AlsaMixer.app you might want to be able to tell them apart. This can easily be done by setting a label to each one of them. By using the -l option you can add a little text label at the bottom of the mixer. Save volume settings: Use the option -S (and -f ) if you want the volume settings to be saved when AlsaMixer.app exits, and then -L to be loaded again when AlsaMixer.app is started the next time. When not using -f the settings are saved in/loaded from ~/GNUstep/Defaults/AlsaMixer. Use the -f option if you want to use a different file. (TODO: mute states aren't saved/loaded) Configurable middle click: By default, when you middle click anywhere inside application window, app tries to load default mixer setting from default or explicitly configured (-f) file. If file doesn't exist, nothing happens. You can also configure AlsaMixer.app to run command (i.e. better mixer) on middle click by using -e option. Bugs -------------------------------------------------------------- If you discover any bugs in this software, please send a bugreport to xhlavk00@stud.fit.vutbr.cz and describe the problem. Special thanks to -------------------------------------------------------------- Per Liden - original author of Mixer.app David Sauer Theo Schlossnagle Alban Hertroys Copyright -------------------------------------------------------------- AlsaMixer.app, 2004, Petr Hlavka Mixer.app is copyright (c) 1998-2002 by Per Liden and is licensed through the GNU General Public License. Read the COPYING file for the complete license. Minor parts of this code were taken from asmixer by Rob Malda (malda@slashdot.org)