[pulseaudio-discuss] keyboard shortcuts for pavucontrol

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Thu Dec 24 08:42:02 PST 2009


On Wed, 23.12.09 15:09, Halim Sahin (halim.sahin at freenet.de) wrote:

> 
> Hi Lennart.
> 
> On Mi, Dez 23, 2009 at 02:55:54 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Wed, 23.12.09 14:40, Halim Sahin (halim.sahin at freenet.de) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > In my previous mail I have written about the great feature of pulse to
> > > move some streams between audio cards.
> > > This is really great but sometimes difficult to use for blind poeple.
> > > 
> > > When I open pavucontrol and tab to a stream i can't open the contextmenu
> > > with the keyboard.
> > > I must use the mouse emulation of the screenreader to do this.
> > > This works not reliable sometimes.
> > > Can you please tell me if we have already shortcuts for this or better
> > > can you at some?
> > 
> > I think the focus should be to make g-v-c fully accessible instead of
> > pavucontrol. That said I'd be happy to take patches, as usual...
> 
> g-v-c = gnome-volume-manager??

Alsmost:

g-v-c is gnome-volume-control.

> I was not aware that it supports the moving of streams between
> audiocards.  Sure I see which apps are playing but couldn't move
> these like in pavucontrol.  Was pavucontrol only a temporary
> solution?  Gruß Halim

g-v-c allows moving between devices too, but its kinda
all-or-nothing. It will hopefully be extended one day, though.

pavucontrol is a playground for fun stuff, with a not-so-polished
UI. g-v-c is the software that is full supported and intended for the
normal end-user.

Lennart

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