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Asked: 2020-06-13 12:00:08 +0800 CST

Enable/disable microphone in Terminal

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I would like to enable or disable the microphone in the Terminal. How can I do it? For example, I use sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo to disable the webcam and sudo modprobe uvcvideo to enable it. Is there a command to to the same thing with the microphone?

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  1. Best Answer

    You could try

    amixer sset Capture toggle

    which will toggle the capture of your mic (on/off). You could even connect it to a key (e.g. XF86AdioMicMute -if you've got a key that invokes this event), so you would not even have to open a terminal for this.

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  2. wutang@shaolin:~$ gsettings list-recursively | grep mic
org.gnome.desktop.privacy disable-microphone false
org.gnome.shell.overrides dynamic-workspaces true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys mic-mute ['']
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys mic-mute-static ['XF86AudioMicMute']
com.canonical.unity.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys mic-mute 'XF86AudioMicMute'
org.gnome.mutter dynamic-workspaces true

    wutang@shaolin:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.privacy disable-microphone true

    I actually don't know the effect of this... I am using MATE and a lot of gnome stuff doesn't have any effect on MATE so I cannot confirm. There is usually an org.mate counterpart, but not for this one.

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