On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:35:57AM -0500, Christopher Yap wrote:
> > I was over at Geralds' the other night and he showed me this neat key
> > binding to pause xmms[1] with the Pause/Break key.  The command to
> > pause xmms is "xmms -u" from the command line.
> >
> > Both him and I use enlightenment[2] so binding the key is relatively
> > easy from the enlightenment configuration[3] program.
> >
> > Gerald then said it was too bad that he couldn't control the volume,
> > and I was sure there was a program from the command line that could do
> > it.  Doing some searching with man I found aumix is capable.
>
> Cool!
>
> But I don't understand why your extra perl script is needed -- I
> just set up enlightenment to call "aumix -v+10" or "aumix -v-10"
> whenever I press +/- on the keypad. (-v sets the master volume,
> and -w sets the pcm.)
>
> I wonder what the reasons are to use the master volume vs pcm? In
> the past I have generally left the pcm at 90% (in xmms) and used
> a gnome-panel applet to change the master volume.
>
>
Boy do I feel stoopid :)

See I knew someone would figure out a faster way.  To be honest I never
even thought about binding the command to the key.  Guess I am too used to
scripting stuff and that's what first popped into my head.  Getting old.

Chris