pa-applet volume control for system tray

I posted recently about an issue with pnmixer and replacing it with volumeicon:

https://bkhome.org/news/202111/pnmixer-replaced-by-volumeicon.html

However, a pure ALSA volume control does not talk properly to pulseaudio, and the levels on the slider do not correspond with those shown in pavucontrol (the pulseaudio mixer).

There are a few pulseaudio-aware volume controls for the systray, and I have settled on 'pa-applet' for the next release of EasyOS.

This is maintained by Dima, known as 'dimkr' on the Puppy Forum, and 'iguleder' on the old Puppy Forum. Dima forked the original pa-applet project and maintains it especially for Puppy:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/pa-applet

Note that Dima registered on the new Puppy Forum late in 2020, and has since then been extremely active with developing woof-CE. Announcement of registration on forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=13821#p13821

And here is one of my blog posts about some of the development work that he is doing:

https://bkhome.org/news/202105/puppy-moving-to-xwayland.html    

Tags: easy