                         PulseAudio Volume Control 6.2

     * [1]License
     * [2]News
     * [3]Overview
     * [4]Current Status
     * [5]Documentation
     * [6]Requirements
     * [7]Installation
     * [8]Download
     * [9]Bug Reports
     * [10]Contributing Code
     * [11]Contributing Translations

License

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under the terms of the GNU Public License as published by the Free
   Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your
   option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
   General Public License for more details.

News

   Wed Sep 17 2025:

   [12]Version 6.2 released. Changes:
     * A number of translation updates.
     * Add a checkbox to disable unavailable profiles.
     * Avoid inhibiting monitor source suspend.
     * Fix peak decay when monitor is suspended.
     * Add a build option to disable audio feedback.

   Fri Aug 01 2024:

   [13]Version 6.1 released. Changes:
     * Fix translations not being correctly picked up.
     * Fix bug where cards don't go away when unplugged.
     * Fix app naming in desktop file (Volume Control).
     * Fix Bluetooth codec selection alignment.
     * Update Swedish translation.

   Tue May 21 2024:

   [14]Version 6.0 released. Changes:
     * Migrate from Gtk 3 to 4.
     * Embed UI resources in executable.
     * Rename "Set as fallback" to "Default" for better legibility.
     * Support 144 Hz monitors with level bars.
     * App icons will fallback to generic rather than missing image, and
       this will be more common with Gtk 4.
     * Lots of translation updates.
     * Drop autotools build in favour of meson.
     * Make libcanberra dependency optional.

   Sun Aug 15 2021:

   [15]Version 5.0 released. Changes:
     * Support for switching Bluetooth codecs (new in PulseAudio 15.0).
     * Support for locking card profiles (new in PulseAudio 15.0). Locking
       a profile prevents PulseAudio from automatically switching away
       from that profile on plug/unplug events.
     * New translations: Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Galician, Hebrew,
       Kazakh, Norwegian Bokmål, Sinhala, Slovenian
     * Updated translations: Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese
       (Traditional), Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
       Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian
       Nynorsk, Polish, Portugese, Portugese (Brazil), Slovak, Spanish,
       Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
     * Some bug fixes.
     * New dependency: json-glib.
     * Minimum gtkmm version bumped to 3.22.

   Tue Mar 5 2019:

   [16]Version 4.0 released. Changes:
     * There can now be only one pavucontrol window open at a time. Trying
       to start pavucontrol for a second time brings the first window to
       foreground.
     * Added a "Show volume meters" checkbox to the Configuration tab.
       Disabling the volume meters reduces CPU use.
     * Improve the use of space (remove useless margins and paddings).
     * Use a more appropriate icon for the channel lock button.
     * Better channel label layout, prevents volume sliders from getting
       unaligned.
     * Maximum latency offset increased from 2 to 5 seconds to accommodate
       AirPlay devices that often have higher latency than 2 seconds (this
       is not that useful on newer PulseAudio versions, though, because
       the latency is reported much more accurately than before).
     * New --version command line option.
     * New translations: Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Korean, Norwegian
       Nynorsk, Lithuanian, Valencian.
     * Updated translations: Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
       Polish, Swedish.
     * Dropped support for Gtk+ 2.
     * Bumped the minimum supported libpulse version to 5.0.
     * Improved compatibility with newer Glade versions.

   Tue Mar 24 2015:

   [17]Version 3.0 released; improved error handling; remember device
   selection visibility; window sizing improvements.

   Fri Mar 8 2013:

   [18]Version 2.0 released.

   Tue Sep 27 2011:

   [19]Version 1.0 released.

   Thu Sep 15 2011:

   [20]Version 0.99.2 (v1 RC2) released; digital receiver UI.

   Tue Aug 2 2011:

   [21]Version 0.99.1 (v1 RC1) released; gtk3 support; source output
   volume support; key command handling; bugfixes.

   Wed Oct 14 2009:

   [22]Version 0.9.10 released; minor fixes; translation updates.

   Thu Sep 10 2009:

   [23]Version 0.9.9 released; allow configuring device ports; various
   updates.

   Mon Apr 13 2009:

   [24]Version 0.9.8 released; allow configuring card profiles; various
   updates.

   Tue Sep 9 2008:

   [25]Version 0.9.7 released; show volume meter for each stream and
   device.

   Fri Mar 28 2008:

   [26]Version 0.9.6 released; draw radio buttons instead of check boxes
   when moving streams; fix crasher when connecting to a PA server that
   has no default sink/source configured.

   Tue Oct 30 2007:

   [27]Version 0.9.5 released; rework UI; add context menu option to kill
   a playback stream; add context menu option to select the default
   device; use prettier channel names; filter non-application streams by
   default; support muting streams

   Sat Aug 26 2006:

   [28]Version 0.9.4 released; add the ability to move a stream to another
   device while it is playing; limit the list of sinks/sources shown by
   their type; other cleanups

   Mon Jul 24 2006:

   [29]Version 0.9.3 released; show client names only if they are set

   Sat Jul 8 2006:

   [30]Version 0.9.2 released; update for [31]PulseAudio 0.9.2

   Fri Jun 2 2006:

   [32]Version 0.9.1 released; add a .desktop file; update icons
   everywhere

   Sat May 27 2006:

   [33]Version 0.9.0 released; update for Polypaudio 0.9.0; show client
   name of playback streams; make volume slider more responsive

   Fri Apr 21 2006:

   [34]Version 0.8 released; initial release

Overview

   PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume
   control tool ("mixer") for the [35]PulseAudio sound server. In contrast
   to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume
   of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately.

   Everybody loves [36]screenshots.

Current Status

   Works perfectly.

Documentation

   There is not much to say. Just run pavucontrol and see for yourself.

Requirements

   Currently, pavucontrol is tested on Linux only. It should work on most
   Linux distributions.

   pavucontrol requires [37]gtkmm and glademmm installed.

   Obviously pavucontrol requires an installation of [38]PulseAudio.

Installation

   As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run
   ./configure inside the distribution directory for configuring the
   source tree. After that you should run make for compilation and make
   install (as root) for installation of pavucontrol.

Download

   The newest release is always available from
   [39]http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/

   The current release is [40]6.2

   Get pavucontrol's development sources from the git [41]repository
   ([42]GitLab):
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol.git

Bug Reports

   Here's the list of open bug reports:
   [43]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/issues

   And here you can create a new bug report:
   [44]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/issues/new

Contributing Code

   If you have patches for pavucontrol, the primary method for submitting
   them is by creating a merge request in [45]GitLab.

Contributing Translations

   Translations can be contributed in [46]Fedora's Weblate translation
   service. Pavucontrol isn't affiliated with Fedora otherwise, but Fedora
   kindly offered to host the translation service for us.

References

   1. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#license
   2. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#news
   3. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#overview
   4. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#status
   5. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#documentation
   6. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#requirements
   7. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#installation
   8. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#download
   9. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#bugs
  10. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#patches
  11. file:///build/pavucontrol/src/build/doc/README.html#translations
  12. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-6.2.tar.xz
  13. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-6.1.tar.xz
  14. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-6.0.tar.xz
  15. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-5.0.tar.xz
  16. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-4.0.tar.xz
  17. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-3.0.tar.xz
  18. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-2.0.tar.xz
  19. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-1.0.tar.xz
  20. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.99.2.tar.gz
  21. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.99.1.tar.gz
  22. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.10.tar.gz
  23. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.9.tar.gz
  24. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.8.tar.gz
  25. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.7.tar.gz
  26. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.6.tar.gz
  27. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.5.tar.gz
  28. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.4.tar.gz
  29. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.3.tar.gz
  30. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.2.tar.gz
  31. http://pulseaudio.org/
  32. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.1.tar.gz
  33. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.9.0.tar.gz
  34. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-0.8.tar.gz
  35. http://pulseaudio.org/
  36. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol//screenshot.png
  37. http://www.gtkmm.org/
  38. http://pulseaudio.org/
  39. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/
  40. http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-6.2.tar.gz
  41. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol.git
  42. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol
  43. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/issues
  44. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/issues/new
  45. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol
  46. https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/
