PulseAudio Mixer Applet ======================= Pulseaudio Mixer Applet is a small applet for the GNOME panel that can control both input and output device volumes, and individual playback stream volumes. It also provides a convenient way to change the default input and output devices, and move application audio streams to different devices. Requirements ------------ This applet can be built with the following: libpulse 0.9.15 gtk+ 2.16 glib 2.14 libpanel-applet 2.10 intltool 0.35.0 About this Repository --------------------- this is a branch of the bazaar repository: https://launchpad.net/pama by Vassili Geronimos the most recent actity recent activity was this update: 42. By Vassili Geronimos on 2010-04-22, ie almost 8 months ago goals: make it easier to build and run in a debugger Build and Install from Source ----------------------------- to build: libtoolize aclocal autoheader automake --add-missing autoconf # omit CFLAGS for defaults # might also want to pass PKG_CONFIG_PATH, eg to use a debug-enabled gtk+ CFLAGS="-g -O0" ./configure make make install note: ./scripts/autogen.sh performs the above up to and including autoconf if any of the dependencies are missing, they should cause errors when ./configure is run you'll need the development versions of the dependencies, ie the include files on debian and ubuntu this means the "-dev" packages eg, sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libpanel-applet2-0-dev libpanel-applet2-dev libpulse-dev note: verbose make output not specific to pama, but it uses AM_SILENT_RULES, which results in make being very quite by default ie, instead of printing the full gcc command line, it only prints a summary eg, CC pulseaudio_mixer_applet-pama-pulse-context.o to get the verbose output, use "make V=1" Running ------- verify that: PulseAudioMixerApplet.server exists in your bonobo "servers" directory, ie ubuntu 10.10: /usr/lib/bonobo/servers if not, eg because you've used a custom configure prefix, copy or link the server file to that location right click on the panel, select "add to panel" choose "PulseAudio Mixer Applet" the applet provides 2 icons, one above the other - one for sinks (playback) and the other for sources click on an icon to activate it a volume slider and mute button are provided for each device and application clicking on the "default" button on a device will set it as the default clicking on the "device" button on an application will route the audio to/from the device that you choose note: the sink and source need to be specified independently eg, to move an application to a headset click on sinks and select the headset as the application's device then do the same for sources Debugging --------- when an applet is added to the panel, or a loaded applet exits and the user selects "Reload", the panel will load attempt to load the applet if an instance is already running, it will be used otherwise, it will look for the binary that the server file names and execute it if the applet is already loaded, kill it and the panel will offer to automatically "Reload" it killall pulseaudio-mixer-applet run the applet (note: the applet will wait until it is activated), eg from the command line: ./src/pulseaudio-mixer-applet or from netbeans: Debug::Debug Project either "Reload" the applet using the panel dialog or add the applet to the panel the applet will be activated and appear in the panel if you're running in a debugger, you should be able to set breakpoints and access the full state Netbeans -------- this project can be imported into netbeans ... see docs/netbeans.txt