Bug#754543: pacmd: Missing (volume) control for system event sounds

[Jens Schmidt]

Package: pulseaudio-utils
Version: 5.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

there is no way to control volume of system sounds by script with pacmd (eg. at
login). Sometimes system sounds are much too loud. Then you have to start
pavucontrol (if installed) and move the system sound slider to reduce sound
volume. Or you have to switch off the sound card. This is a no-go for disabled
people.

Please implement access to control system sound volume in pacmd or another
command line tool.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio-utils depends on:
ii  libc6        2.19-4
ii  libcap2      1:2.22-1.2
ii  libice6      2:1.0.8-2
ii  libpulse0    5.0-2
ii  libpulsedsp  5.0-2
ii  libsm6       2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1  1.0.25-9
ii  libx11-6     2:1.6.2-2
ii  libx11-xcb1  2:1.6.2-2
ii  libxcb1      1.10-3
ii  libxtst6     2:1.2.2-1

pulseaudio-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pulseaudio-utils suggests:
ii  avahi-daemon  0.6.31-4
ii  pulseaudio    5.0-2

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