I don't like Windows much, but I loved Windows 11 sound volume control via three-finger touch pad gestures, so I ported that behaviour to Ubuntu 22.04. The script [TVC] listens to events from a touchpad device, detects three-finger taps and modifies the sound volume depending on the vertical scroll direction. Installation Download the script from … Continue reading Ubuntu gesture volume control
Tag: audio
Disable Firefox media auto play
Disabling audio and video auto play in Firefox over the settings page doesn't work reliably at the time of writing (v111). I found this setting to get the job done: type about:config in the address bar Find the setting media.autoplay.blocking_policy Set it to the value 2
Monitoring input audio with Ubuntu
Monitoring an audio source is a term audio folks use to say that they send the signal from an audio input source (eg. line in or microphone) to an auxiliary audio output (eg. headphones) so that they can listen to the input signal in real time. Windows 10 allows this out of the box, it's … Continue reading Monitoring input audio with Ubuntu
George's Techblog 