Bug 219912

Summary: Control multiple volumes at the same time using KMix keyboard shortcuts
Product: [Applications] kmix Reporter: GODLiKE <juan_maiden45>
Component: generalAssignee: Christian Esken <esken>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: aversa, jjm
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description GODLiKE 2009-12-24 02:38:38 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.3)
Compiler:          gcc (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.4 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Related thread: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=84673

I own a SB Live! 5.1 card with a home theater setup, and different volumes control the different channels. There's no "one volume fits all" kind of thing, so if I want to globally raise or lower the volume on my speakers, I have to do so on several different channels. The only workaround I could come up with is using bash scripts with amixer commands in it, and assign those scripts to the keyboard keys using khotkeys. But of course, not only do I miss the KMix OSD popup, but I am also bypassing KDE system for doing this kind of things, and while it works, I don't feel comfortable with it this way.

In GNOME I used to be able to bind several volumes (from different controls, e.g. master, wave, wave front, etc) to the keyboard shortcuts, and then upon pressing volumeup or volumedown, all volumes would be lowered or raised accordingly. Maybe the same feature could be added to KMix?
Comment 1 Alan Aversa 2021-04-24 18:50:55 UTC 
Currently, I see that key shortcuts bound to volume up and down change master volume and reset everything else's volume to 100%. It would be good to be able to bind different keys to specific volume up and downs (e.g., "Front", "Surround", "Center", …)
Comment 2 Jonathan Marten 2023-06-25 11:39:54 UTC 
It is possible to assign volume up/down shortcut keys to specific channels of a card - in the full KMix mixer window the context menu over a channel has "Channel Shortcuts" which can assign shortcuts for volume up, volume down or mute.

For configuring groups of channels, so that they all follow the same volume settings, see bug 57949.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 57949 ***