Features

• no pulseaudio, gstreamer, phonon etc. only alsa is needed

• internal mixer application, but you can choose any mixer app you prefer

• left click opens volume scale (slider)

• scroll wheel on tray icon changes volume, increment in percents is configurable

• you can configure middle click to toggle 'mute' or 'show mixer'

• nice tooltip with card and volume info

• support for multimedia keys on keyboard

• support desktop notifications on keys events

• control volti from command line or bind keys within your window manager

Dependencies

• pygtk 2.16.0 or later

• pyalsaaudio 0.6 or later

• dbus-python 0.80.0 or later

• python-xlib 0.15rc1 or later (optional, used for keys events as an alternative to hal)

Install

Manually

Run 'python setup.py install'. You can also start application from source dir, just run ./volti.

Arch

volti is in aur

Gentoo

volti is in portage

Slackware

GNOME SlackBuild has volti in extra

Debian/Ubuntu

deb package can be found at downloads page

PCLinuxOS

volti is in the repos

Screenshots

• Gallery

Changes

v0.2.3 Dec 29, 2010:

• select visible controls in mixer application
• support for soundcards with split master channel such as M-Audio 2496, thanks to Marc Brevoort
• fix issue with awesome window manager
• bug fixes

v0.2.2 Sep 1, 2010:

• internal mixer application
• only show channels that have Playback Volume capability
• about page in preferences

v0.2.1 May 30, 2010:

• scale now behaves correctly on vertically oriented panel, thanks to Fomin Denis for the patch
• added Russian translation
• Debian/Ubuntu package, thanks again to Fomin Denis
• fix notifications in Ubuntu, also disable some features if we are dealing with notify-osd
• fix bug when "Run in terminal" option is used
• minor bug fixes and optimizations

v0.2.0 April 15, 2010:

• icon themes combobox, choose your favourite theme beside system default
• minor fixes

v0.1.9 March 22, 2010:

• added volti-remote script, you can control volti from command line or bind keys within your wm
• dbus-python is no longer optional
• use pgrep if distribution installs pidof in /sbin
• minor fixes and cleanup