Tag Archives: pulseaudio

Microphone mute key

Posted on 2018-04-07 by

I 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 … Continue reading →

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Swap speakers

Posted on 2017-10-08 by

I 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 … Continue reading →

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Sound in Skype via apulse

Posted on 2014-12-22 by

I 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.

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Sound in Skype 4.3

Posted on 2014-08-16 by

Since 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 … Continue reading →

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