Category Archives: programs

Volume widget is released

Volume widget is a program, which shows system volume levels. It needs pulseaudio, alsa-utils, python3 and python-pyqt5 as dependencies. Note that dependencies might be different depending on your distribution.

#Volume widget Copyright (c) 2017 JJ Posti <techtimejourney.net>
#Volume widget comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
#for details see: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
#This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
#GPL Version 2, June 1991″

Here are some screenshots

When volume goes too high, there will be a warning.

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Power Manager v.7(Python)

power manager, linux applications, linux power management

Power Manager has a new outlook done with CSS.

#Power manager-QT v.7 Copyright (c) 2017 JJ Posti <techtimejourney.net>
#This is a power manager application.The program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; #for details see: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
#This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
#GPL Version 2, June 1991 This is the QT5 version” ) Continue reading →

Vol2X-Reloaded (current is: v.2.0.2)

#Vol2X-Reloaded v.2 Copyright (c) 2017 JJ Posti <techtimejourney.net>#Vol2X-Reloaded comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;#for details see: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. #This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under #GPL Version 2, June 1991″

Dependencies:

pulseaudio #this is a must-have dependency.

pulseudio-utils #this is needed because the program uses pactl.

alsa-utils #this is needed because the program uses amixer as a helper when fetching system sound level upon start. Amixer is also used when setting microphone input level via the microphone slider. Continue reading →

Vol2X-Reloaded arrives

Vol2X-Reloaded is a substantial rewrite of the older Vol2X-QT5. The code is now about 400 lines smaller than before. I have commented the code quite heavily, so it should be easy to follow. This time the code is also composed manually, instead of using any designer application.

The outlook of the program has also changed quite a lot. Vol2X-Reloaded is styled with CSS and it looks like this. Continue reading →