Volumectl

A small script that bundles volume control and dunst notification. Intended to be used either on command line or for keyboard shortcuts.

Here below is a demonstration of how it works when pressing the volume and mute keys. The behaviour of the notification is the same if the script was executed from the terminal.

Installation

Dependencies

Dunst

Before installing and using this script, you will need to install the official dunst package. Make sure you have the dunstify command available, that's what is needed to have a nice looking percentage bar.

Bash Ini Reader

In order to use a custom config file (which is optional, the script works without it but it's useful if you want to customise it), you need to install the read_ini.sh script from the bash_ini_parser github repo.

You can do it in two different ways downloading the script directly or cloning the git repo (the script won't care which one you choose, it knows how to handle both situations).

Option 1: Cloning the git repo

git clone https://github.com/rudimeier/bash_ini_parser $HOME/.local/lib/bash_ini_parser

Option 2: Downloading the script directly

Make sure you have wget installed first.

Downloading the script directly doesn't change much to do it this way since the repo hasn't been updated in a while.

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/lib
wget -O $HOME/.local/lib/read_ini.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rudimeier/bash_ini_parser/master/read_ini.sh
chmod +x $HOME/.local/lib/read_ini.sh

Installing volumectl

To install this script, you can do it in a similar way as with the ini parser, you can either clone the repo or download the script directly (this option is not recommended because you might miss new features or bug fixes).

Option 1 (recommended): Cloning the repo

To make install the script, just clone this repo and then create a symlink to volumectl in whatever directory you want (as long as it is in your $PATH variable, so that the script will be executable from anywhere in the terminal, see this link for more info about the $PATH variable). In the commands below I'm using the $HOME/.local/bin, which by default is not in the $PATH variable, so make sure you set it.

git clone https://github.com/karma-riuk/volumectl $HOME/.local/lib/volumectl
mkdir -p $HOME/.local/bin # just to make sure that the ~/.local/bin directory exists
ln -s $HOME/.local/lib/volumectl $HOME/.local/bin/volumectl

Option 2 (not recommended): Downloading the script directly

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/bin
wget -O $HOME/.local/bin/volumectl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karma-riuk/volumectl/master/volumectl
chmod +x $HOME/.local/bin/volumectl

Usage

To use the script, simply execute the volumectl with the flag you want, example:

volumectl -i

Possible flags

(You can find all the information below by doing volumectl -h)

Flag	Usage
-i or --increase	increases the volume by the "normal" amount (by default: 5%)
-i arg or --increase arg	increase the volume by the arg amount