Add direct controls through the CLI

[margual56]

It would be nice to have arguments to this program. E.g.:

• pacmixer --vol +1
• pacmixer --mute and pacmixer --unmute
• etc

Said commands would apply for the default device.
This would allow for extensibility and allow using it from other programs.

I would try to implement this myself, but I don't know objective C at all.

Edit: The intention with this is to be able to use the volume keys to lower or raise the volume. I don't know if there is a specific API that, for example, alsamixer used to achieve this.

[Syakhisk]

You can use pactl for that, here's some example:

# Vol up/down
pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +10% 
pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -10% 

# Vol mute
pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle

# Mic mute
pactl set-source-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle 

[KenjiTakahashi]

There was a plan for this indeed. But right now I'm not sure whether it's going to happen anymore. PA seems to be slowly phased out in favour of Pipewire. And I'm personally moving some of my audio stuff out to sndio.
It is not decided yet, but this project might possibly reach EOL soon.
Still, I'll keep this open for now.