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Asked: 2018-05-07 00:08:53 +0800 CST

Set volume to 150% permanently and map volume keys from 0-150%

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I have a two fold issue since many years. I hope to find a fix now. I'm on Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 and yet again the volume levels are very low.

  1. Allow louder than 100% option is gone from the sound settings in Ubuntu Budgie 18.04. So I worked around it using pactl set-sink-volume 0 150%
  2. Whenever I hit the volume up/down key, the volume resets to 100%. Then I will have to do pactl set-sink-volume 0 150% again to get louder volume from the speakers.

How do I make, say 150% permanent and map the volume keys to work from0-150%

sound pulseaudio keyboard alsa volume-control

3 Answers

  1. You should have a setting called Over-Amplification in Settings > Sound. Turning it on and adjusting the volume slider above it will only get you to 100%, but you can still adjust beyond 100% by using either your keyboard's volume buttons if available, or adjusting the volume slider in the corner of your screen.

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  2. You can install pavucontrol, it let's me tune up to 153% on Ubuntu Gnome 18.04. There is also a setting in dconf /com/ubuntu/sound called 'allow-amplified-volume' but switching that true/false had no effect for me

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  3. Best Answer

    Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) adds this feature by default. It works very nice too.

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