Onscreen Audio Popup?
from Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linux@lemmy.ml on 19 Dec 23:36
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33723388

I sometimes listen to music from Amazon Music through Firefox while I play Rocket League. My keyboard has audio controls, and in Windows adjusting the volume or hitting pause would briefly show an overlay with the current song info and album art.

In Linux the default behavior is to show nothing. Is there a setting or tool to add similar functionality to the Windows behavior?

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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 19 Dec 23:51 collapse

Which Linux distro are you using? What’s your Desktop Environment?

On Linux Mint with Cinnamon there’s a very similar popup to what you described if you open the volume slider from the toolbar in the lower right.

Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Dec 01:06 collapse

I am using Mint Cinnamon. Are you saying this is a setting I can turn on?

I’m looking for something to display briefly with the current song info when I make an adjustment, without having to click into anything.

Edit: I’m back home and looking at this now. Yeah, the info I want is in the volume slider when I click. I want this to briefly appear in an overlay when I, say, change the volume so that I can quickly address my curiosity when playing a video game, for example.

Is there something that does this? A song is currently playing, and this is all I get when changing volume.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/4cab57e7-3cd2-4a53-9184-d630b9b6bcf3.webp">

Windows gives something closer to what is in the volume setting in the taskbar after clicking on it.

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online on 20 Dec 03:01 next collapse

It’s possible, there is a shared standard for music in Linux

I’m only saying this to get the comments up, I have no clue how cinnamon does it’s UI

Try asking the mint community developers where or how you could adjust the volume adjustment gui and how it would be done with a plugin as an example

Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Dec 04:36 collapse

Ok thanks for the direction. I’ll check there.

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Dec 03:17 collapse

Ahh, okay. I know Cinnamon shows the song that’s playing if you click the little speaker in the toolbar to adjust the audio slider with the mouse. IDK if there’s a setting to make it show on the little pop-up thing in your photo, not sure if that one has options. Like the other commenter said, I’d check in the Mint forums or discord. Could be there’s a theme that has it already