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Audio mixer (pavucontrol) should control usb-c headsets #8025

Open MaikoID opened 1 year ago

MaikoID commented 1 year ago

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Qubes OS release

4.1.1 (R4.1)

Brief summary

Audio mixer ignores the usb-c headset that is added to one of the qubes.

qvm-usb sys-usb:2-3 OnePlus_Technology_BE02T_20160406.1 personal

Steps to reproduce

While using a usb-c headset; Add it to one of the qubes. Headset is working on the qubes, both playback and recording. Audio mixer doesn't see the headset. Also, changing the system volumes doesnt have any effect.

Expected behavior

That Audio mixer controls everyone of the audio devices available.

Actual behavior

The audio mixer pavucontrol don't see the headset, hence, it doesn't control its sound. The only workaround is control the volume through the app using it when possible.

DemiMarie commented 1 year ago

You need to run pavucontrol from the VM that is providing the audio.

andrewdavidwong commented 1 year ago

The audio mixer pavucontrol don't see the headset, hence, it doesn't control its sound. The only workaround is control the volume through the app using it when possible.

You need to run pavucontrol from the VM that is providing the audio.

Sounds like this might be a UX issue with developer intentions differing from user expectations. Maybe what we need is some way to indicate this to the user.

MaikoID commented 1 year ago

You need to run pavucontrol from the VM that is providing the audio.

Thanks for answering, I did that, I installed pavucontrol on my Debian template and controlled it on my qubes, it kind of works but in a strange way.. every time a new audio is played the volume go back to 100% making it unusable, any thoughts on that?