xsndiomenu

by Morgan Aldridge morgant@makkintosshu.com

OVERVIEW

A simple menu utility to view & control sndio devices & state under OpenBSD. It is a wrapper around OpenBSD's dmesg(8), sndioctl(1), and sysctl(8) powered by xmenu.

NOTE: This is currently a standalone X11 application and does not integrate with the system tray.

FEATURES

• Lists all audio devices by hardware description, including:
  • Denotes which is the active audio server device
  • Supports switching active audio server device
• For input & output:
  • Shows level (volume)
    • Supports setting level to min/max
    • Supports increasing/decreasing by 10%
  • Shows mute status
    • Supports toggling mute
• For input, denotes whether audio recording is enabled in the kernel

Example Screenshot

PREREQUISITES

• xmenu

USAGE

xsndiomenu

SIMILAR UTILITIES

You might want to check out these similar projects for controlling OpenBSD's sndiod(8) from X11:

• sndiokeys
• tray-app (specifically /usr/local/libexec/tray-app/sound; for use with a system tray application)

LICENSE

Released under the MIT license.