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Mixer

volctl – per-application volume control and OSD

October 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

volctl is a Linux tray mixer for controlling master and per-application volume, with mute controls, VU meters, mouse-wheel support and OSD.

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Mixer

pwvucontrol – PipeWire Volume Control

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

pwvucontrol is a graphical PipeWire volume control for streams and devices, with routing, profiles, ports, and real-time peak meters.

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Mixer

pulsemixer – CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, TUI

pulsemixer provides a curses-based PulseAudio mixer with stream routing, per-channel volumes, device settings and custom keyboard controls.

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Mixer

pipemixer – TUI volume control software for pipewire

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

pipemixer is a PipeWire TUI mixer with volume, mute, routing, profile and default-device controls, using an ncurses interface.

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Mixer

pacmixer – PulseAudio tool similar to alsamixer

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

pacmixer provides a terminal PulseAudio mixer with per-channel levels, device profiles, mute controls and configurable keyboard navigation.

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Mixer

pavucontrol – graphical PulseAudio volume control

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

pavucontrol is a GTK audio mixer for controlling application streams, input and output devices, ports, profiles and PulseAudio settings.

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Mixer

deej – open-source hardware volume mixer

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

deej is a hardware volume mixer using Arduino sliders to control application, microphone and master audio levels on Linux and Windows.

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Mixer

KMix – sound channel mixer and volume control

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

KMix is KDE’s sound channel mixer and volume control with master-channel selection, tray controls, configurable steps and D-Bus support.

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Mixer

PAMix – audio mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

PAmix is an ncurses PulseAudio mixer with playback and recording tabs, channel controls, device selection and customisable shortcuts.

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Mixer

wmsmixer – hack to wmmixer

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

wmsmixer is a hack to wmmixer which makes some changes to the display and adds a few new features, most notably scrollwheel support.

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Mixer

hyprmixer – volume mixer and media controller

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Hypermixer is billed as a stylish volume mixer and media controller for your hyprland rice.

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Mixer

QasTools – Qt-based ALSA mixer and setup tools

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

QasTools is a Qt desktop toolset for ALSA with graphical mixing, high-level control access, configuration browsing and device settings.

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Mixer

xfce4-mixer – audio mixer for the Xfce desktop

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

xfce4-mixer provides a standalone audio mixer and an Xfce panel plugin, supporting volume control through several Linux audio backends.

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Mixer

Mixer – change the volume of apps

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Mixer is a no-frills volume mixer, with simplicity and usability at its core. It’s written in the Vala programming language.

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Myxer – modern volume mixer for PulseAudio

November 8, 2024 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia

Myxer is a lightweight GTK volume mixer for PulseAudio with device, stream and card-profile controls in a compact desktop interface.

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