Bug 184047

Summary: Volume Up/Down Shortcuts should affect all or at least the currently used soundcard
Product: [Applications] kmix Reporter: Mischael Schill <me>
Component: generalAssignee: Christian Esken <esken>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mischael Schill 2009-02-11 21:02:22 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I have a builtin Soundcard and two USB headsets. One of the USB Headsets has volume up/down keys, as does my keyboard. Both send the appropriate signals. The problem is, that the shortcut for Volume up/down can only be set for a single channel or soundcard. So if I plug in my headset and want to change the volume, only the onboard volume is changed. I could of course use systemsettings to explicitly set the keys to my headset, but if I use my speakers with my onboard sound card, I would have to change it back. There would be two solutions:

1. Make it possible that the volume of all installed/plugged in soundcards can be altered at the same time.

2. Make a shortcut that alters the master volume from the currently used soundcard.
Comment 1 Christian Esken 2009-02-15 14:50:57 UTC 
Could you elaborate a bit what you mean with "currently used" soundcard?
Used for what? System sounds, Video, Audio, whatsoever?!?
Comment 2 Mischael Schill 2009-02-15 19:28:21 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you elaborate a bit what you mean with "currently used" soundcard?
> Used for what? System sounds, Video, Audio, whatsoever?!?

The card currently playing something. Variant 1 would probably be better (all soundcards)
Comment 3 Christian Esken 2010-08-01 01:19:37 UTC 
I won't do Variant 1, but Variant 2 would be the behavior desired by several users in Bug 181652 (marking this as duplicate).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 181652 ***