]> Gaurav Chaturvedi

gaurav.p.chaturvedi@gmail.com

Christian Esken

esken@kde.org

Developer Helio Chissini de Castro

helio@kde.org

Developer Brian Hanson

bhanson@hotmail.com

Developer 19962005 Christian Esken & &Matt.Johnston; &FDLNotice; 2020-10-04 Applications 20.12 &kmix; is an application that allows you to change the volume of your sound card. KDE KMix kdemultimedia sound volume mixer &kmix; supports several platforms and sound drivers. If you have both ALSA and Open Sound System drivers installed, &kmix; will use the ALSA driver. Screenshot of &kmix; Screenshot of &kmix; Overview of &kmix; Main Window Screenshot of &kmix; Screenshot of &kmix; &kmix; File options &kmix; File options &Esc; File Hide Mixer Window Hide Mixer Window &kmix; Settings &kmix; Settings Settings Audio Setup Open &phonon; &systemsettings; module to configure the sound and video device preference and the backends used by &kde; multimedia API, &phonon;. &kmix; Master Channel &kmix; Master Channel Select your &kmix; master channel. General configuration of &kmix; General configuration of &kmix; Configure general &kmix; parameters. Behavior Volume Overdrive Check this box to allow volume to be more than recommended value (sometimes PulseAudio maximal volume exceeds the normal value). &kmix; restart is needed for this setting to take effect. Uncheck this item if there are audible sound distortions at the maximal volume. Behavior Volume Feedback Check this box to enable audible feedback on volume change. Behavior Volume step Set the volume step as a percentage of the volume range. This affects changing the volume via hot keys, with the mouse wheel over the system tray icon, or moving sliders by a page step. &kmix; must be restarted for this change to take effect. Visual Show slider tickmarks Check this box to show tickmarks on the sliders. Visual Show control labels Check this box to show labels of controls. Visual Show On Screen Display (OSD) Check this box to enable OSD show on hovering &kmix; tray widget. Slider orientation (main window) Horizontal Check this radio button to orientate the control slider horizontally. Slider orientation (main window) Vertical Check this radio button to orientate the control slider vertically. Slider orientation (system tray popup) Horizontal/Vertical Same as the previous two radio buttons but for the system tray volume control (the panel that is shown after &LMB; click on &kmix; tray icon). Start configuration of &kmix; Start configuration of &kmix; This page allows you to configure various &kmix; start parameters. Startup Start KMix on desktop startup Check this box to enable &kmix; autostart with desktop environment. Startup Restore previous volume settings on desktop startup Check this box to enable volume levels and switches restoration to their last used settings on desktop start. The volume of PulseAudio or MPRIS2 dynamic controls will not be restored. Volume control configuration of &kmix; Volume control configuration of &kmix; This page allows you to configure various &kmix; popup volume control parameters. Dock in system tray Check this box to dock &kmix; in system tray. It is possible to select mixers that will be shown in the volume control using the corresponding list on this page. You can control &kmix; via &DBus;. This is for advanced users who want to achieve special tasks, like muting the PC every day at 10 pm, or for any other scripting task. List all &kmix; related &DBus; methods and properties qdbus org.kde.kmix Getting volume level (0-100%): qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers/0/Master_0 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get org.kde.KMix.Control volume Setting volume level (0-100%): qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers/0/Master_0 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set org.kde.KMix.Control volume 70 &kmix; Documentation copyright © 2010 Gaurav Chaturvedi gaurav.p.chaturvedi@gmail.com Thanks to: &Matt.Johnston; &Matt.Johnston.mail; (copy and pasted a lot of things from his old &kmix; documentation) &underFDL; &underGPL; &documentation.index;