[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#979636: alsamixer: provide a better way to quit than Esc+q

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Control: tags -1 unreproducible

Hi Thorsten,

* Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> [2021-01-09 16:45 +0100]:

> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.2.4-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: upstream
> X-Debbugs-Cc: tg at mirbsd.de
> 
> alsamixer is terminated, according to its manual page, by
> pressing Esc then pressing q (the manpage writes this as
> Alt-q but there is no such thing as an Alt key on Unix).
> 
> alsamixer will also terminate on double Esc but not “eat”
> the second Esc, leaving it for the shell, which is very
> annoying (especially as Esc+Esc or Esc+wait 2 seconds is
> the way to terminate similar applications, and they *do*
> eat it).

I can quit alsamixer on two different ways:

Hitting <ESC> once or
hitting <ALT> q simultaneously

I don't understand what you really want?

BTW, the termination is given by design. Changes should be discussed
with upstream.

Elimar
-- 
  Numeric stability is probably not all that
  important when you're guessing;-)