Microphone mute key
Posted: 2018-04-07 Filed under: media, system | Tags: acpi, capture, microphone, mute, pulseaudio, x230 Leave a commentI have a ThinkPad x230 with Sound (mute/unmute), Volume, Microphone (mute/unmute) and Lock Screen physical keys. The Microphone key does not work out-of-the-box, and I finally decided to search a bit for a solution. I found this nice post about Ubuntu.
So, I decided to give it a try. Read the rest of this entry »
Swap speakers
Posted: 2017-10-08 Filed under: media, system | Tags: pavucontrol, pulseaudio, speaker, swap Leave a commentI have a pair of active speakers and I need to swap Right and Left. Simply, cabling will be much easier this way. I cannot set this in the speakers themselves, so I searched for a software solution. I googled around and found this discussion for Ubuntu. One of the posts had the solution, that works also for Slackware.
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Sound in Skype via apulse
Posted: 2014-12-22 Filed under: desktop, media, network, system | Tags: .desktop, apulse, multilib, pulseaudio, skype, sound 5 CommentsI have been using the 4.3 version of Skype for several months already, with PulseAudio and its compat packages installed. However, I experienced problems with some audio programs. XMMS would crash regularly and Clementine would refuse playing. Read the rest of this entry »
Sound in Skype 4.3
Posted: 2014-08-16 Filed under: desktop, media, network, slackbuilds, system | Tags: 32bit, alsa, compat32, multilib, pulseaudio, skype, slackware, x86_64 2 CommentsSince version 4.3, Skype for Linux requires PulseAudio. It is available from SBo, but since Skype is a 32bit program only, the necessary 32bit compatibility packages should be installed as well. I am running Slackware64 14.1 -multilib system and I have a virtual machine with Slackware 32. Read the rest of this entry »
