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authorLeo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>2020-01-10 02:48:21 +0100
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2020-01-11 18:18:51 +0100
commitf6f918113052fe781fa7a1c4c6b666b5aa57c834 (patch)
tree1d595c2f2d103b87032a242685e6403fa3550b39
parentf547426200d5547268d4a4a8f51c913072fa622f (diff)
downloadguix-f6f918113052fe781fa7a1c4c6b666b5aa57c834.tar.gz
services: pulseaudio-configuration: Set flat-volumes to no.
* gnu/services/sound (pulseaudio-configuration) [daemon-conf]: Disable
flat-volumes, which causes unpleasant experiences to users when applications
inadvertently max out the system volume (e.g. as in #38172).

Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
-rw-r--r--gnu/services/sound.scm5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/sound.scm b/gnu/services/sound.scm
index 0ac96a02ad..4ec6120ac7 100644
--- a/gnu/services/sound.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/sound.scm
@@ -114,7 +114,10 @@ ctl.!default {
   (client-conf pulseaudio-client-conf
                (default '()))
   (daemon-conf pulseaudio-daemon-conf
-               (default '()))
+               ;; Flat volumes may cause unpleasant experiences to users
+               ;; when applications inadvertently max out the system volume
+               ;; (see e.g. <https://bugs.gnu.org/38172>).
+               (default '((flat-volumes . no))))
   (script-file pulseaudio-script-file
                (default (file-append pulseaudio "/etc/pulse/default.pa")))
   (system-script-file pulseaudio-system-script-file