1 .TH wmix 1x "2.2" "Fredrik Steen"
3 wmix \- Dockapp mixer for OSS or ALSA
13 Docked application to control audio mixer for OSS or ALSA.
14 Allows toggling record source,
15 muting individual channels, adjusting volume and balance, all in a
16 compact dockapp size, with TV\-like on\-screen\-display for volume levels.
18 Supports mouse wheel to adjust current channel's volume
19 and can be controlled remotely with unix signals
21 to raise/lower the volume.
22 Keeps a simple configuration file for user\-defined settings.
26 \fB\-d\fR <\fIdisplay\fP>
27 Connect to remote X display
29 \fB\-e\fR <\fIname\fP>
30 Exclude channel from control (see
35 \fB\-f\fR <\fIfile\fP>
36 Use config file instead of
40 Display list of command\-line options
42 \fB\-m\fR <\fIdevice\fP>
43 Use specified mixer device instead of
47 Verbose start, report detected channels
49 .SH CONFIGURATION FILE
50 If readable, the file \fI~/.wmixrc\fP (or the file specified through \fB\-f\fR option)
52 It may contains one configuration command per line:
54 mousewheel=<\fI0\fP|\fI1\fP>
55 when set to \fI0\fP, disable the volume control through mouse wheel (default=\fI1\fP)
58 when set to \fI0\fP, disable display of the volume in an OSD like fashion (default=\fI1\fP)
60 osdcolor=<\fIcolor\fP>
61 specify the color to use for OSD volume display.
62 It can be the name of a color (see \fI/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt\fP)
63 or an RGB specification (as \fBrgb:\fP<\fIred\fP>/<\fIgreen\fP>/<\fIblue\fP>
64 with hexadecimal numbers) as expected by X11 (default=\fIgreen\fP)
66 scrolltext=<\fI0\fP|\fI1\fP>
67 when set to \fI0\fP, disable text scrolling to display the name of current selected
68 channel, use static short name instead (default=\fI1\fP)
70 wheelbtn1=<\fIbutton\fP>
72 wheelbtn2=<\fIbutton\fP>
73 defines the buttons events associated in X11 to the mouse wheel,
74 with \fIbtn1\fP for up and \fIbtn2\fP for down
75 (default: btn1=\fI4\fP and btn2=\fI5\fP)
77 wheelstep=<\fIpercentage\fP>
78 sets the volume change step when using the mouse wheel,
79 specified as a percentage of the total volume range (i.e.: 1\~<\~\fIvalue\fP\~<\~100,
82 For compatibility, values between 0.0 and 1.0 will be considered as a raw percentage
84 You may include comments in the file using the character # in which case
85 everything will be ignored from the character to the end of the line.
88 The names for the different channels are provided by ALSA/OSS as short names, for which
90 provides a long name match for readability.
91 The default behavior is to scroll the long name of the current channel
92 in the text line of the dockapp, but if you disable the scroll text
93 then the short name will be displayed instead.
95 If you want to exclude a channel from the list of channels controlled by
96 the dockapp you have to use the short name.
97 You can get the list of all the channels available in your sound card with
99 and the short name will be between parentheses, here is an example:
103 1: Master volume (Vol )
104 2: PC Speaker (Spkr )
105 3: PCM Wave 2 volume (Pcm2 )
106 4: Input gain (IGain)
107 5: Phone output (PhoneOut)
113 User configuration file (change with option
117 Contains process id of wmix, in case you'd need it for
118 .IR SIGUSR1 / SIGUSR2
122 Device used for controlling volume (change with option
125 .I /usr/share/doc/wmix/README
126 More information on the user interface
129 The \fImute\fP functionality is implemented by setting the volume to 0
130 and remembering the previous volume to restore it when unmuting.
131 While this is perfectly ok, you may encounter strange looking behavior
132 if you have other application controlling the volume, and possibly
133 implementing mute in similar ways, because there is no way to know
134 that a channel has been muted.
136 If you modify the configuration file, do not expect \fBwmix\fP to reload
137 it automatically, this is considered a too costly feature for such a
141 This man page was written by Fredrik Steen <stone@debian.org> for the Debian
143 It was expanded by Christophe CURIS for the Window Maker Dev Team.
145 wmix was written by Tim, timecop <timecop@japan.co.jp>,
146 with some code by Daniel Richard G. <skunk@mit.edu>