Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

[Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

Petter Adsen:
> Do you really need a mixer, or do you just need a way to control
> volume/mute?
> 
> If the latter, you could bind some keys to the XF86_Volume*-keys
> (and mute) if you don't have multimedia keys on your keyboard, Xfce
> recognizes those and adjusts the volume accordingly.
> 
> There are probably command line tools that will adjust the volume by a
> certain number of steps that you could use for this, also, although I
> don't know of any.

I use xbindkeys, and with the aid of xbindkeys-config I set
'Ctrl+Up'   to execute "/usr/bin/amixer set Master 5%+" (volume up) and
'Ctrl+Down' to execute "/usr/bin/amixer set Master 5%-" (volume down).