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sound is not working

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:21:15 +0000

Hello I face a difficulty I do not turn the sound although I added pulseaudio at startup. someone could help me ? please

# [...]
exec mpd
# [...]
set $mod Mod4
# [...]

#--- Pulse Audio controls------------------------------------
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 +5% #increase sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 -- -5% #decrease sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle # mute sound
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

# [...]
exec --no-startup-id pulseaudio

Comment by Michael Rose for

Hello I face a difficulty I do not turn the sound although I added pulseaudio at startup. someone could help me ? please

# [...]
exec mpd
# [...]
set $mod Mod4
# [...]

#--- Pulse Audio controls------------------------------------
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 +5% #increase sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 -- -5% #decrease sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle # mute sound
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

# [...]
exec --no-startup-id pulseaudio

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 02:19:12 +0000

I3 doesn't do sound and can't make your sound work or not work. Note pulseaudio requires other services to work. On my system I think I had to enable dbus and consolekit which on a minimal os may not be enabled by default.

Comment by Adaephon for

Hello I face a difficulty I do not turn the sound although I added pulseaudio at startup. someone could help me ? please

# [...]
exec mpd
# [...]
set $mod Mod4
# [...]

#--- Pulse Audio controls------------------------------------
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 +5% #increase sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 -- -5% #decrease sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle # mute sound
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

# [...]
exec --no-startup-id pulseaudio

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:20:15 +0000

Did you check volume levels with some other tools, e.g. `pavucontrol`? Are you sure that your sound card has actually the index "0"? For example the HDMI output of your graphics adapter may also be recognized by pulseaudio. You can check this with `pactl list`.

Comment by i3convert for

Hello I face a difficulty I do not turn the sound although I added pulseaudio at startup. someone could help me ? please

# [...]
exec mpd
# [...]
set $mod Mod4
# [...]

#--- Pulse Audio controls------------------------------------
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 +5% #increase sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 -- -5% #decrease sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle # mute sound
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

# [...]
exec --no-startup-id pulseaudio

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:00:47 +0000

I doubt someone will be patient enough to read your config file, especially with this formatting.

Answer by dllkevin for

Hello I face a difficulty I do not turn the sound although I added pulseaudio at startup. someone could help me ? please

# [...]
exec mpd
# [...]
set $mod Mod4
# [...]

#--- Pulse Audio controls------------------------------------
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 +5% #increase sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume 0 -- -5% #decrease sound volume
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle # mute sound
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

# [...]
exec --no-startup-id pulseaudio

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:48:33 +0000

thank you guys i fixed it finally