Re: [xmonad] XMonad.Actions.Volume

Quoting Russell Adams :

I don't see the point in extending Xmonad to do this.

I have a ton of items bound to keys for Amarok (vol up/down, next/prior, del, start/stop) all via shell scripts:

You're right. The actions themselves aren't that interesting. For amixer, you don't even need a shell script for changing the volume, just spawn "amixer Master 10%+" or "amixer Master 10%-" to raise or lower the volume, respectively. What's interesting about the module is that it returns the result of the change to the caller. The idea is that you can then connect this to an OSD. Daniel Schoepe already showed an example for osd_cat, and I plan on making something for ghosd as well in my copious free time. ;-) Cheers, ~d