[linux-audio-user] Re: best window manager for making music

[Brian Dunn]

Thanks again, lau. You've help me sort through the bazillion options out 
there and i'm now bedazzling myself with the glamor of fluxbox... so 
fresh, yet so clean.
For a while i was frustrated by the absence of a good dockapp alsa 
mixer, then i discovered the beauty of the .fluxbox/keys file.  Mod4 +, 
rear speakers louder.  Mod4 -, rear speakers quieter.  sweet.
amixer provides no mute toggle for rear out of an emu10k1. so i wrote 
this goofy script and bound it to Mod4 m.

        # Check if the Wave Surround level is already 0
VOL=`amixer sget 'Wave Surround' | grep 'Front Left:' | cut --delimiter=' '  --fields=6`
if [ $VOL -gt 0 ]; then
        #mute
        #store the current wave surround volume in VOL
        LASTVOL=`amixer sget 'Wave Surround' | grep 'Front Left:' | cut --delimiter=' '  --fields=6`
        #turn the sound all the way down.
        amixer sset 'Wave Surround' 0
        echo $LASTVOL > ~/.lastvol
else
        #unmute
        amixer sset 'Wave Surround' `cat ~/.lastvol`
fi


is this like a really dumb way to add a mute toggle? This is like my 
first real bash script, so any suggestions are welcome.  Here i'll get 
the ball rolling: i should learn to use sed or awk so i don't have to 
pipe grep and cut together.

well, thanks  to ya'll my computer is looking and sounding sweeter than 
ever and it's oh so customized.

God Bless,
Brian