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What do you do for a volume icon/volume control?
For volume control, I use Wireplumber:
For icon I have configured the swaybar. I don't use notifications, thus they're simple to set for bindsym (above) if needed.
Thanks! By configure the sway bar, do you mean that it has a way to display the volume? I couldn't find that last time I tried to get things configured and ended up just going back to i3
I have 4 icons displaying the current amount of volume with white background and for mute I use red background. It was super easy to set in the config file even I don't speak C++.
slightly unrelated but I use i3 and use volume hardware keymaps. would be nice to have a tray alsa source switcher etc. don't know if one exists. for the stupid work meetings
I also use i3 and volume key maps, the tray icon I use is just called volumeicon and it can be used to switch sources. I think it has optional dependencies to do it though