Volume control and volume notifications for i3wm
- i3wm - A better tiling and dynamic window manager
- alsa-utils (if not using pulseaudio-utils) - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture utils
- pulseaudio-utils (if not using alsa-utils) - Sound system for POSIX OSes
- A libnotify compatible notification daemon such as notify-osd or dunst
notify-send(provided by libnotify) ordunstify(provided by dunst)
Arch Linux users may find PKGBUILD in aur.
Volume control can be done through either alsa-utils, pulseaudio-utils, or both. The example configuration uses pulseaudio-utils. If you want to use alsa-utils instead, comment out the bindsyms under pulseaudio-utils and uncomment the bindsyms under alsa-utils.
Notifications are provided by libnotify. Any libnotify compatible notification daemon can be used for notifications. The most common are notify-osd and dunst. To disable notifications remove the -n option from the bindsyms in the example configuration below.
If you are using dunst, you may optionally choose to use dunstify instead of notify-send by adding the -y option to the bindsyms in the example configuration below.
Expiration time of notifications can be changed using the -e <time_in_milliseconds> option. Default is 1500 ms.
Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/hastinbe/i3-volume.git ~/i3-volume
Edit the following example and append it to your ~/.config/i3/config:
## Volume control
# Path to volume control, without trailing slash
set $volumepath ~/i3-volume
# Command for the status line (used with -t, requires -u)
# ie: i3blocks, i3status
set $statuscmd i3status
# Signal used to update the status line (used with -u, requires -t)
# i3blocks uses SIGRTMIN+10 by default
# i3status uses SIGUSR1 by default
set $statussig SIGUSR1
# Amount to increase/decrease volume as a percentage (used with -i, -d)
set $volumestep 5
# alsa-utils settings when not using pulseaudio-utils
#
# To configure a default card, see https://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc
#
# Card number to control. (used with -a and -c)
# If not specified, i3-volume will let `amixer` use a default.
# List cards: aplay -l
#set $alsacard 1
# Uncomment to use alsa-utils (append "-c $alsacard" without quotes to override default card)
#bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec $volumepath/volume -anp -i $volumestep -t $statuscmd -u $statussig
#bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec $volumepath/volume -anp -d $volumestep -t $statuscmd -u $statussig
#bindsym XF86AudioMute exec $volumepath/volume -amn -t $statuscmd -u $statussig
# pulseaudio-utils settings when not using alsa-utils
#
# Symbolic name for sink (numeric index not supported) (used with -s $sinkname)
# Recommended: comment out this setting and omit the -s option to use default sink
# List sink names: pacmd list-sinks | awk -F "[<>]" '/^\s+name: <.*>/{print $2}'
#set $sinkname alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
# Using pulseaudio-utils (append "-s $sinkname" without quotes to override default sink)
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec $volumepath/volume -np -i $volumestep -t $statuscmd -u $statussig
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec $volumepath/volume -np -d $volumestep -t $statuscmd -u $statussig
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec $volumepath/volume -mn -t $statuscmd -u $statussig
Reload i3 configuration by pressing mod+Shift+r
Use your keyboard volume keys to increase, decrease, or mute your volume. If you have a volume indicator in your status line it will be updated to reflect the volume change (requires -t $statuscmd and -u $statussig to be set). When notifications are enabled (-n flag) a popup will display the volume level.
Example of notifications using notify-osd:
- alsa-utils won't unmute if
pulseaudiois running. You must disable pulseaudio's auto respawn and terminate thepulseaudioprocess. Or use pulseaudio-utils for unmuting. - dunst isn't displaying icons in notifications.
icon_positionneeds to be set to eitherleftorright(default isoff) in your~/.config/dunst/dunstrc. - dunst icons are too small. Change
icon_pathin your~/.config/dunst/dunstrcto a path containing larger icons, such as/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/status/:/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/devices/. Alternatively try increasingmax_icon_size
Note only one notification daemon can be running at the same time. dunst can't be running for notifications to go through notify-osd and vice-versa.
i3-volume is released under GNU General Public License v2
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.