Bug#837637: Audio settings often reset to 100% Volume

[Felipe Sateler]

On 18 January 2017 at 13:22, Francesco De Vita <fradev at inventati.org> wrote:
> It seems to me that this problem is related to the flat-volumes issue already
> reported in the bug #541538 [1].
>
> Time ago I solved this problem in this way:
>
>> echo 'flat-volumes = no' >> ~/.config/pulse/daemon.conf
>> pulseaudio -k && pulseaudio --start
>
> However, although in Jessie and Stretch flat-volumes are still enabled by
> default (the pulseaudio manual and /etc/pulseaudio/daemon.conf say so) and
> removing the modification above, I do not experience the issue anymore on
> different machines with Gnome and Plasma 5.
>
> But I wonder why it is no more an issue, at least for me. Are flat-volumes
> managed in a different manner now? Do you have any clue about it?

The volume is reset by applications that try to set the master volume
to 100%. Most applications don't try doing that anymore.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler