i want to adjust the main volume using a terminal command.

by the main volume, i mean the volume slider that appears in the status area. i want to run a command, and have this slider move. {this is the media volume, and its used for all x-maemo streams, and is inherited by other apps, yadda yadda.}

i have investigated pa_cvolume, phonon, qmediaplayer, pactl/alsamixer/amixer, and looked around for dbus calls. this...shouldnt be this hard. please, somebody read this and answer my prayers.

note: i do not want to adjust the volume with the volume keys {e.g. by setting resource policy in a qt app}.
i do not want to lower or raise the maximum volume {e.g. with alsamixer}.
i want to do the precise equivalent of grabbing that central volume slider and dragging it.

ok! so theres a dbus for it, but it requires having either music-suite or qmafw-gui open.

qdbus com.nokia.mafw.renderer.MafwGstRendererPlugin.mafw _gst_renderer /com/nokia/mafw/renderer/mafw_gst_renderer set_extension_property volume 85

qdbus com.nokia.mafw.renderer.MafwGstRendererPlugin.mafw _gst_renderer /com/nokia/mafw/renderer/mafw_gst_renderer get_extension_property volume


next step is to figure out how the hell mafw gets started

Changing topic title (like inserting "Help needed for..." can be usefull

Hope you will get that volume button to work!