[pulseaudio-discuss] set volume all sinks

[poort]

On Monday 15 February 2010 16:29:29 Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and poort at 15/02/10 14:32 did gyre and gimble:
> > On multi-user computers, some users set the volume to zero as they leave
> > the computer.The next user that is loggin in on the computer does not
> > know the the volume is muted and gets no sound.
> > How can I set the volume to maximum at login for the default sink of this
> > user, or better set the volume to max at boot(or with gdm login or
> > rc.local) for all output sinks?
>
> This will be solved when http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/572 is fully
> resolved.
>
> Effectively the following will happen:
>
> 1. Brand new installation + new user accounts.
> 2. Machine boots and initial volume is set for the ALSA hardware during
> boot.
> 3. GDM fires up and as it's a new user account it inherits the volume
> from ALSA and saves it in it's own user-specific volume settings database.
> 4. A real user logs in, and also inherits initial volume from ALSA.
> 5. User sets volume to 0 and logs out.
> 6. GDM's PA fires up again and restores the volume to it's saved value
> form 3.
> 7. A new user logs in and inherits the value from ALSA which has been
> restored by GDM to the initial value.
> 8. User logs out and the first user from 4 logs in again.
> 9. User's saved volume (0) is restored.
>
> So once that is fixed everything will flow and work correctly from there.
>
> Col
Thanks,
But I was thinking on a script that will be called with GDM's Postlogin 
default script.The script should find the user's default sink and put the 
volume to max or 80 % with set-sink-volume "users default sink" 55000