nmixer(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

nmixer — an interactive text-based sound-mixer control program. That's it, that's the whole vibe. Also, hi bestie, this page is nmixer(1), living its best life in section 1 of the General Commands Manual. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nmixer [-q] [[-s mixdev=setting] ...]
nasmixer [-q] [[-s mixdev=setting] ...]

Two names, one iconic program. 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

NMixer is an interactive text-based sound-mixer control program that you can use to set the volume of each supported mixer device of your soundcard. It automagically detects all the devices your sound hardware supports and shows you a list of scrollbars for each of them. No cap, it just knows. 🪄

To move through the list of scrollbars, use the up and down arrow keys — or k and j respectively, if you're that kind of girl. Some scrollbars don't fit on the screen, but it's fine, you can reach them by simply scrolling down at the bottom of the screen. 💖

The left and right arrow keys — or h and l respectively — change the volume for the currently highlighted device. And if you're lucky (emphasis on if you're lucky, this part is not guaranteed), you can use home/end/PgUp/PgDn on the numerical keyboard to set left and right volume independently. Fancy. 🎚️

You can also use 0..5 to set the volume to the position indicated by the numbers on top of the screen. Simple as that.

If a device can be recorded from, red brackets will be displayed under the device's name. And if it's selected as the recording source, a red 'X' shows up as well. You set a recording device with the space bar. 🎙️

And one more thing: if nmixer is compiled with NAS (Network Audio System) support and it's called as nasmixer, it will show the settings for the NAS mixer device. Slay. 🌈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d device — Sets the mixer device to use (default = /dev/mixer). 🎛️
• -s mixdev=setting — Sets a specific mixer device to the volume specified by setting. Example: bass=100 🔊
• -q — Immediately quit (after the command-line specified settings are set!). This only makes sense if you use command-line options to set volumes. (currently, the interface is drawn while setting the mixer, and removed afterwards, which might be annoying, but it's in the way of being changed :) )

Lowkey important: -q only makes sense when you're setting volumes from the command line, bestie. Otherwise you're just quitting immediately for no reason. 😭

💀 BUGS 💀

If you find bugs, please report them on the sourceforge project site. Do not suffer in silence, that's not the energy we're bringing. 🐛🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

nmixer was written, directed and performed by Bram Avontuur <bram@avontuur.org> <http://www.stack.nl/~brama/>

Please send comments, suggestions, complaints, bug fixes, coffee and porting experiences to me, including the version number of nmixer in your mail. ☕💜

okay that's the entire page, we ate and left no crumbs — this was nmixer(1) from the General Commands Manual, mwah 💋🎀🦋