Enhancement - Volume adjustment with mouse wheel

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Well, it would be very good to increase/decrease volume with
the mouse wheel on the tray icon, wouldn't it ?

I definitely love my 9.6 version,
I love the very few dependencies on Gnome !

[my life]
   I'm running XFCE, with gamix ans alsa.
   gamix doesn't allow setting sound with mouse wheel in the tray
   Audacious does (for music) : would be great to have the same on G-mPlayer !
[/my life]

Nice job then ! Keep on
Arnaud

Original issue reported on code.google.com by arnaudv6 on 20 Oct 2009 at 5:27

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if you have GTK 2.12 or higher it should do this already.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2009 at 5:33

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First, thanks for answering that fast. Well,
-> I got gtk+ 2.16.6 on my Gentoo
-> I upgraded GmPlayer to 0.9.8,
which by the way is a very good job : thank you !
But it still doesn't work :
-> maybe does it rely on gnome (I'm under XFCE)
-> maybe does it rely on pulseAudio (I only use Alsa)
and I compiled the package with no gnome nor pulse-audio dependency.
Maybe gentoo is implicated ?
By the way, I'm sorry for the bad set heading of my "Issue"

Original comment by arnaudv6 on 20 Oct 2009 at 6:03

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Do you see a speaker icon in the control bar? If so it might be alsa, and then 
you
might try enabling softvol and I'm pretty sure it works.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2009 at 6:13

• Changed title: Enhancement - Volume adjustment with mouse wheel

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I don't use an advanced mixer :
I work with alsamixer, amixer or gamix...
so I see no "speaker" in the control bar...
(I posted gamix's creator for the same spec... waiting)
Alsa doesn't have something in the tray, has it ?
The softvol is something I hate, anyway, it doesn't work.
Does the mouse wheel on the systray control softvol ?

Original comment by arnaudv6 on 20 Oct 2009 at 6:40

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please post a screen shot of your gnome-mplayer. Something doesn't sound right. 
I
with the versions of code you have you should see the stock gtk volume button 
widget,
which it doesn't sound like you are. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2009 at 7:00

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Well, here's my screenshot,
with system's tray :
next to the clock, the network, and... gmplayer,
which doesn't respond to mouse's wheel.

Original comment by arnaudv6 on 20 Oct 2009 at 7:21

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ok, when you hover over the widget to the right of the media tracker, it should 
come
up with a percentage, and then you should be able to move the mouse wheel up and
down. If it does not work, please just try and enabled softvol to test it. If 
it work
with softvol enabled but not without it, then you are probably experiencing the 
alsa
volume bug (really hard to change the volume). Using softvol is a known 
workaround
for that problem.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2009 at 7:45

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OK, the "widget" GmPlayer's window works even without soft-volume...
but without changing any setting, the system tray icon doesn't act at all.
Once again, Audacious achieve this very well :
I don't know about this Alsa bug, maybe should I read docs anyway ?

By the way, sounds mute when closing preferences windows,
till I sett it with the "widget". But that's another topic.

Original comment by arnaudv6 on 20 Oct 2009 at 10:22

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Oh, I misunderstood what you wanted.. You want to control the volume, but using 
the
wheel on an icon that has nothing to do with the volume. So no, I will not be 
making
that change. 

If you want to do it, it is quite simple, but I believe it is incorrect to do 
this.

Suggest you request the feature from gamix.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2009 at 10:33

• Changed state: Done
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Well, then the subject as no longer reason for being...
Thanks for the time spent answering,
and I'll try to manage another way.

I might add I totally agree that it can seem a "double" from the function of a 
soundmixer.
However for me it's an added value : how good it is to be abble dicrease the 
volume of
audacious (even if it's on another desktop) to ear well midori's flash video 
for example...
Thanks for what exist anyway : I'll keep using and loving it. kind regards.

Original comment by arnaudv6 on 21 Oct 2009 at 12:22