volume

Access and control your volume easily via Terminal or Hotkey.

Installation

Just make youstream executable and place it somewhere within your $PATH.

For example:

$ chmod +x youstream
# mv youstream /usr/local/bin/youstream

Usage

$ volume [ previous | play-pause | next | up | down | mute | unmute | toggle-mute | get ]

Configuration

Edit the script for personal preferences.

Dependencies

• Bash
• coreutils (cut, echo, tail, test)
• libnotify (notify-send)
• alsa-utils (amixer)
• cmus (cmus-remote)
• grep
• sed

Examples

awesome

Add the following lines to your rc.lua to use your multimedia keys as hotkeys for volume:

awful.key({},     "XF86AudioPrev",        function () awful.util.spawn("volume previous") end),
awful.key({},     "XF86AudioPlay",        function () awful.util.spawn("volume play-pause") end),
awful.key({},     "XF86AudioNext",        function () awful.util.spawn("volume next") end),
awful.key({},     "XF86AudioRaiseVolume", function () awful.util.spawn("volume up") end),
awful.key({},     "XF86AudioLowerVolume", function () awful.util.spawn("volume down") end),
awful.key({},     "XF86AudioMute",        function () awful.util.spawn("volume toggle-mute") end)

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Dominik Meissner <dome@code-breaker.de>

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