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# sjs

## geeky ramblings

## Controlling volume via the keyboard on Linux 0

Posted by sjs
on Saturday, June 30

I was using Amarok’s global keyboard shortcuts to control the volume of my music via the keyboard but I wanted to control the system volume as well. A quick script later and now I can control both, and thanks to libnotify I get some feedback on what happened. It’s not as pretty as OS X’s volume control or Growl but it’ll certainly do.

↓ Download volume.rb

I save this as ~/bin/volume and call it thusly: `volume +` and `volume -`. I bind Alt-+ and Alt—to those in my fluxbox config. If you don’t have a preferred key binding program I recommend trying xbindkeys. apt-get install, emerge, paludis -i, or rpm -i as needed.

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