PASYSTRAY(1) General Commands Manual PASYSTRAY(1)

pasystray - PulseAudio controller for the system tray

pasystray [options]

pasystray enables control of various PulseAudio server settings from the X11 system tray. Clicking the tray icon will display a graphical menu, allowing the user to:

adjust the volume of streams and sinks/sources
transfer streams between sinks/sources
switch the default sink/source
set the default server (PULSE_SERVER)
detect network PulseAudio services
rename devices

Status icon:

Middle-click / Alt + Left-click: toggle mute, default sink
Ctrl + Middle-click / Ctrl + Alt + Left-click: toggle mute, default source
Scroll up/down: adjust volume, default sink
Ctrl + Scroll up/down: adjust volume, default source

Source/Sink menu item:

Scroll up/down: adjust volume
Left-click: set as default source/sink
Middle-click / Alt + Left-click: toggle mute
Right-click: open menu to move all outputs/inputs to this source/sink or rename it

Playback/record stream menu item:

Scroll up/down: adjust volume
Middle-click: toggle mute

pasystray can make use of the following PulseAudio modules:

module-device-manager - device renaming
module-zeroconf-discover - network device discovery

These modules may need to be loaded, using e.g. pactl(1) or pasystray itself.

In order to detect remote sinks/source, as well as enabling module-zeroconf-discover locally, module-zeroconf-publish must be enabled on the remote server.

As with most PulseAudio-aware applications, the environment variable PULSE_SERVER may be set to the address of a remote host in order to use pasystray to control the server running on that host.

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').

Show the program version.
Print debugging information.
Set the maximum volume (in percent).
Set the volume increment.
Reverse the direction of volume adjustment with the mouse scroll wheel.
Disable the status icon tooltip for the connected state.
Disable all notifications. Deprecated; use --notify=none instead.
Enable notifications for all changes in pulsaudio. Deprecated; use --notify=all instead.
Show monitor sources.
Enable keyboard volume control and mute keys to adjust volume settings.
Set notification options; use --notify=help for a list of valid options.

pulseaudio(1), pactl(1).

Homepage: https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray

June 14, 2018