PAVUMETER(1)

💖 PAVUMETER(1) — the pavumeter manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to pavumeter, a volume meter for the PulseAudio sound server. yes it's a manual page, yes it's from section 1 (that's user commands, iykyk), and yes we're gonna get through it together. grab a strawberry 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

pavumeter — a volume meter for the PulseAudio sound server. that's it, that's the vibe. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pavumeter [OPTION...] [<sink>|--record <source>]

literally just that. the square brackets mean optional, so you can just run it and let it do its thing. main character energy fr fr 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Displays a live volume meter of a PulseAudio source or sink. that's the whole plot. it watches your audio go by and shows you the levels in real time, and honestly? iconic. ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• <sink> — the PulseAudio sink device to monitor. if you don't specify <sink>, it just uses the default output sink. lowkey convenient. 🫶
• --record <source> — show Recording Levels. <source> is the PulseAudio source device to monitor, and if you don't specify <source>, the default input source is used. so like, the input twin of the thing above. 🎤
• --display=DISPLAY — specify the X display to use. for when you've got more than one screen situation going on and you need to be specific about it.
• -h, --help — show a summary of options. the lil quick version. 🥰
• --help-all — show all available options. the full lore drop.
• --help-gtk — show standard gtk options. gtk has its own options and this is where they live. 💅

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• pulseaudio(1)
• pavucontrol(1)
• padevchooser(1)

the friend group. go say hi. 🌈

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⭐ RESOURCES ⭐

• Homepage: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavumeter/
• PulseAudio web site: http://pulseaudio.org/

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Lennart Poettering <mzihzrgre@0pointer.de>. king behavior, no cap. 🙇‍♀️

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📚 DOCUMENTATION 📚

Documentation by CJ van den Berg <cj@vdbonline.com>. thank u for ur service bestie 🫡

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🌸 COPYING 🌸

Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Lennart Poettering. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). so like, free as in freedom, periodt. 💖

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ngl that's the whole page, and it ate. every option, every link, every name, all present and accounted for. no crumbs left. 🍓

okay bye bestie, go meter some volume — this manual page is dated 03/22/2020, from the PAVUMETER(1) family, and honestly? she's still serving. 💅✨🎀