dotfiles/media.md

Media control in i3

Media control using i3 commands

1. Create a mode "media" in i3 configuration
2. Check pulseaudio is installed
3. Check pactl is installed, which will be used as command line interface to turn music on/off
4. Check sink number, by pactl list, which will show SINK 0,1,2,etc. Find corret based on which hardware are you using

Media control using TUI

1. Install pulsemixer
2. Use pulsemixer TUI to change volume, this program cannot do single channel change, it can only do change on both channel at once

Media control using GUI (Suggested in Ubuntu Distro)

1. Install pavucontrol
2. Use pavucontrol to change volume