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[Tim Bernhard <ohiomoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, I agree with you 100%.  The issues I presented were not meant to
disagree with what you were suggesting.  Simply pointing out alsamixer
shortcomings.   It looks a little crude and it doesn't look like anything
that "should" be used in a modern OS, but it is needed and it works.

I've needed to use alsamixer to get the mic working on the last 4 laptops
I've purchased.

Tim

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> 2011/9/8 Tim Bernhard <ohiomoto@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I agree.  A link to sound preferences makes sense.
>> The only issues I see are 1) alsamixer is not very intuitive and 2) it
>> dumps users into a terminal which might scare the crap out of many of them.
>> :)
>>
>
> Completely agree that a terminal app scares a lot of people, but in
> particular this one it's more friendly than it seems. In the interest of
> making it more friendly i asked for how to show lxterminal without the menus
> :)
> And meanwhile we have nothing to do this job, alsamixer it's the best
> candidate (as it's already in Lubuntu!). Maybe if there's time, the sound
> applet could be connected to it somehow... but that's another story.
>
> --
> jpxsat
>
>
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