Re: [dev] volume level in dwm taskbar

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote:
> > As long as "aumix -q" refuses to work after the latest update, what you
> guys
> > use to probe volume level? "amixer" could be an alternative but it
> outputs
> > crap, that is difficult to awk.
>
> It isn't great, but I use 'amixer sget PCM' and awk from
> that. Or I use a little C utility I wrote which links to the
> (rather ugly) alsa library functions.
>
> Nick
>
> you mean "amixer sget Master", yes, that is way better, thanks!

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Tian