Volume percentage not visible

[lcswillems]

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Describe the bug The volume percentage is not displayed.

To Reproduce No idea... Earlier today the percentage was being displayed.

Expected behavior The percentage should be displayed.

Installation Details

• Regolith Install Stage: stable
• Regolith Version: 3.2
• Host OS: Ubuntu 24.04

[lcswillems]

So earlier today the percentage was displayed. Then I tried to install sway compositor. Then I disabled and switched back to i3. But this time the volume % was not displayed anymore.

Also, I chatted with Claude and his guess is that before PulseAudio was being used for retrieving the volume and now it is pipewire and amixer

[lcswillems]

I resolved the issue by doing:

sudo apt install pulseaudio

But I'm not sure it is the correct thing?

[sqanch]

Worked for me as well, thanks 👍

[garyritchie]

pulseaudio already installed here but I'm using pipewire with alsa (?... I guess I have a mess here but audio works fine).

Both microphone and speaker indicators don't display levels or react to mouse scroll like they used to.

[RonnyLV]

Having the same issue, running Ubuntu 24.04 with pipewire. Have pipewire-pulse installed as well.

Running i3bar I can see errrors

ALSA lib control.c:1570:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL get
amixer: Mixer attach get error: No such file or directory
Specify a scontrol identifier: 'name',index

[RonnyLV]

So the problem seems to be with the MIXER being picked up as pulse

SCONTROL="${BLOCK_INSTANCE:-$(
    amixer -D $MIXER scontrols |
        sed -n "s/Simple mixer control '\([A-Za-z0-9 ]*\)',0/\1/p" |
        head -n1
)}"

The device in case of pipewire is still default. By specifying the xrescat i3xrocks.volume.mixer to default in the ~/.Xresources works now

The same issue persists with the microphone i3xrocks, setting i3xrocks.mic.mixer to default fixes the issue

To fix the issue add following lines to ~/.Xresources

i3xrocks.volume.mixer: default
i3xrocks.mic.mixer: default

fyi @lcswillems

[garyritchie]

That fixed it for me, thanks!