Fancy New Onscreen Volume Display for Openbox, et al

Question

I created a script for handling my volume control which uses the notify-osd package from AUR.  This is the newfangled notifications from Ubuntu.  It's nothing fancy so the notify-osd-bzr package will probably work fine as well.
This is for alsa but with some minor mods it should work with oss.
You can download the script here: http://mozicodo.s3.amazonaws.com/vol.sh
The format for the command is: vol.sh {up|down|mute} [-i increment] [-m mixer]
Increment is either a percent or number just like you would pass to amixer.  Defaults to 5%
Mixer is the name of the control to change.  Defaults to Master
For example to increase the volume of PCM by 10% you would do:
vol.sh up -i 10% -m PCM
Let me know of any suggestions for improvements.
Edit: fixed the urls
Last edited by abarilla (2009-10-27 15:07:40)

Answer 1

I have tested the script out, but yet I seem to be having issues with notify-osd displaying the stuff.
What I get is this:
It seems as if notify-osd isn't drawing anything but the bubble.  Has anyone had this issue with the script?  (Notify-osd works fine for all the other things I use it for, save for the fact that it doesn't seem to show icons for anything but Dropbox...maybe I'm missing the icon package for it?)
Below are the notify-osd related packages I have installed:
┌─[lswest@Monster:~]-[16:57:11 on 09-07-13]
└─> yaourt -Ss notify-osd|grep installed
aur/gnome-mount-notify-osd 0.8-2 [installed] (31)
aur/gnome-settings-daemon-notify-osd 2.26.1-2 [installed] (15)
aur/notify-osd-bzr 311-1 [342-1 installed] (73)
aur/pidgin-libnotify-notify-osd 0.14-3 [installed] (60)
Thanks in advance for any ideas,
Lswest
Also, below is the original vol.sh script from Abarilla:
#!/bin/sh
usage="usage: $0 -c {up|down|mute} [-i increment] [-m mixer]"
command=
increment=5%
mixer=Master
while getopts i:m:h o
do case "$o" in
i) increment=$OPTARG;;
m) mixer=$OPTARG;;
h) echo "$usage"; exit 0;;
?) echo "$usage"; exit 0;;
esac
done
shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
command=$1
if [ "$command" = "" ]; then
echo "usage: $0 {up|down|mute} [increment]"
exit 0;
fi
display_volume=0
if [ "$command" = "up" ]; then
display_volume=$(amixer set $mixer $increment+ unmute | grep -m 1 "%]" | cut -d "[" -f2|cut -d "%" -f1)
fi
if [ "$command" = "down" ]; then
display_volume=$(amixer set $mixer $increment- unmute | grep -m 1 "%]" | cut -d "[" -f2|cut -d "%" -f1)
fi
icon_name=""
if [ "$command" = "mute" ]; then
if amixer get Master | grep "\[on\]"; then
display_volume=0
icon_name="notification-audio-volume-muted"
amixer set $mixer mute
else
display_volume=$(amixer set $mixer unmute | grep -m 1 "%]" | cut -d "[" -f2|cut -d "%" -f1)
fi
fi
if [ "$icon_name" = "" ]; then
if [ "$display_volume" = "0" ]; then
icon_name="notification-audio-volume-off"
else
if [ "$display_volume" -lt "33" ]; then
icon_name="notification-audio-volume-low"
else
if [ "$display_volume" -lt "67" ]; then
icon_name="notification-audio-volume-medium"
else
icon_name="notification-audio-volume-high"
fi
fi
fi
fi
notify-send " " -i $icon_name -h int:value:$display_volume -h string:synchronous:volume
Last edited by lswest (2009-07-13 15:07:17)