Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.2

Chapter 43. Audio Utilities

pavucontrol-6.1

Introduction to pavucontrol

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume control tool ("mixer") for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools, this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.

Package Information

pavucontrol Dependencies

Required

Gtkmm-4.14.0, JSON-GLib-1.8.0, libsigc++-3.6.0, and PulseAudio-17.0

Optional

libcanberra-0.30 and Lynx-2.9.2

Installation of pavucontrol

Install pavucontrol by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -D lynx=false .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install &&
mv /usr/share/doc/pavucontrol /usr/share/doc/pavucontrol-6.1

Command Explanations

-D lynx=false: This switch disables generating the README file in text format. Remove this switch if you want the README file in text format and have Lynx-2.9.2 installed.

Contents

Installed Program: pavucontrol
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/pavucontrol and /usr/share/doc/pavucontrol-6.1

Short Descriptions

pavucontrol

is a GUI configuration tool for sound settings using pulsaudio