[WORKAROUND] Kmix tray volume incrementation

[artificeprime]

Hey all. Just installed the shiny new Mageia 3 and tripped over my first 'gotcha': a change in either KDE's API since 4.9.x or Qt now triples mouse wheel scroll steps when you hover your cursor over the system tray. If you use your mouse to adjust your speaker volume via the Kmix tray icon you will likely notice it leaps by huge 15% increments instead of its old 5%. Upstream is aware of the problem (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313579).

In the meantime a workaround is to open your ~/.kde4/share/config/kmixrc in your favourite text editor and add the following line in the [Global] section:

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VolumePercentageStep=1.6666

This will set the increment size back to 5%. If you prefer a finer or coarser granularity, pick another percentage, divide by 3, and use that.

Hope this helps.

[doktor5000]

Thanks for sharing

[yankee495]

Yes, thank you.

[Xhermin]

Currently, rolling the mouse scroll wheel one detent changes volume up/down by 15% -- way too coarse an adjustment! I'd like that to be +/-5% or less per detent.

System Settings -> Hardware -> Multimedia has nothing remotely relevant.

System Settings -> Hardware -> Mouse -> Advanced has mouse wheel scroll set for "1 line", but changing this has no effect on volume control.

Kmix Settings/Shortcuts have nothing of the sort either.

No joy in MCC -> Hardware either, from Sound or Mouse standpoint.

[dennisk]

See doktor5000's post below.

dennisk

[doktor5000]

You may want to check https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316546 or https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189995 (or any other of the numerous duplicates, just search for "kmix scrollwheel")

[Ken-Bergen]

Check viewtopic.php?f=41&t=4969&p=34948&hilit=kmix#p34948

[doktor5000]

I've merged the two topics, just forgot about that one ...

[Xhermin]

Thank you, sorry for the redundant thread.