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In Windows, you can fine-tune the volume by dragging the system tray volume meter with your mouse. You can do the same in KDE - only KDE still lets the volume change in leaps of 3% regardless of whether I use the scroll wheel, volume control keys or my mouse. Worse, there is no visual display of the volume percentage (I'm not talking about the mouseover display in the system tray). This of course defeats the purpose of controlling volume by dragging the meter.

This is probably not a very important feature, but it would be nice to have e.g. when I want to lower the sound volume to 2% or 1% because something is particularly loud. This actually happens to me more times than one would think.

What I suggest is that a percentage indicator should be added and that it should become possible to exactly control the volume percentage when mouse-dragging the volume meter.

Hope this is understandable...

With me it jumps 15% by default!

Here a workaround I found. Add

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VolumePercentageStep=1.6666

to the global section of ~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc. That reduces the jumps to 5%. You need to exit kmix and restart it for the changes to take effect.

My preferred value is 0.6666 which equates to 2%,

From here: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=4969

toad wrote:With me it jumps 15% by default!

Here a workaround I found. Add

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VolumePercentageStep=1.6666

to the global section of ~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc. That reduces the jumps to 5%. You need to exit kmix and restart it for the changes to take effect.

My preferred value is 0.6666 which equates to 2%,

From here: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=4969

I'd like to point out that sometimes it isn't true



For me directory is:

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~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc


Anyway, thanks, good answer!