pamix(1)

DESCRIPTION
PAmix is a pavucontrol inspired ncurses based pulseaudio mixer

CONFIGURATION
pamix is configured using a file called pamix.conf inside the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or $HOME/.config, should it not be set.

COMMANDS

PAmix conf files support the following commands:
* bind

bind

SYNOPSIS: bind KEYNAME MIXER-COMMAND [ARGUMENT]

bind is used to bind a keyname to a mixer-command.
Some mixer-commands require an argument.
You can bind a keyname to multiple mixer-commands.

PAMIX-COMMANDS

Pamix-Commands can be bound to keys using the bind command and are used to interact with pamix.
The following pamix-commands are currently supported:

quit

quit will cause PAmix to exit and takes no arguments.

select-tab

select-tab will select one of the following tabs: Output Devices, Input Devices, Playback, Recording, Cards
select-tab takes the number of the tab to switch to starting at 0 in the order mentioned.

select-next and select-prev

these commands are given the optional argument 'channel' they will select the next and previous channels. if no argument is given they will select the next and previous entry in the displayed tab.

set-volume

this command takes the targetvalue in form of a double as an argument.
depending on whether channels are locked, this command will set the volume of the selected entry/channel to the targetvalue given in the argument.
Example: bind 0 set-volume 1.0 ; this will set the volume to 100%

add-volume

this command takes a deltavalue in form of a double as an argument.
the deltavalue can be negative Example: bind h add-volume -0.05 ; this will reduce the volume by 5%

cycle-next and cycle-prev

these commands will change the device or port of the currently selected entry.
they dont take any arguments.

toggle-lock

this command toggles whether channels should be locked together for the currently selected entry
and takes no arguments.

toggle-mute

toggles whether the currently selected entry is muted
and takes no arguments.

DEFAULT CONFIGURATION
Keybindings:
F1 show Playback tab
F2 show Recording tab
F3 show Output devices tab
F4 show Input devices tab
F5 show Cards tab
0-9 set volume to percentage (10%-100%)
j/down select next channel or entry
k/up select previous channel or entry
h/left decrease volume
l/right increase volume
c un/lock channels
s/S select next/previous device/port