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[Locked] Impulse applet: Let's the dock dancing.
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matttbe English 42 matttbe [Read]
18 October 2014 à 23:13

matttbe, Sunday 17 July 2011 à 23:37


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As mentionned in my previous post, it should be great to have an option to adjust the sensitivity with the volume : With my 0.008 (working if the volume is 100%), when I decrease the volume to 50%, The dock stop dancing !
In fact, it's hard to adjust the sensitivity because I think the sensitivity only change if you modify the sound volume of applications and not the master. (this is what I have on 2 computers: if I reduce the sound volume with the AlsaMixer applet, the sensitivity doesn't change but if I reduce the sound volume of Rhythmbox, Totem or VLC, the sensitivity is changed)

The icon should change when Impulse is active/inactive
yes, it's expected

I think that it's not normal to have 0.008 -> Should be more 0.5 !
Yes I understand but in fact the applet receives a tabular from PulseAudio filled with objects ('double' type). An icon is animated if the average of a few values is more than this sensitivity value chosen by the user. But I don't know what's the best values. Maybe I can multiply this value per 3. (for me, 0.08 is good but sometime this received value is higher to 0.4 (not so often but I already had 0.7)). Or something else? The inverse?

matttbe, Tuesday 19 July 2011 à 14:06


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I've multiply the sensitivity value per 3 and the icon now changes if Impulse is running or not

nochka85, Sunday 24 July 2011 à 10:29


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Petit problème avec impulse ce matin :

Vérification de l'intégrité de l'installation

Des erreurs ont été détéctées lors de l'installation.
/home/nochka85/cairo-dock_BZR/cairo-dock-plug-ins/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:77:1: error: expected expression before ‘<<’ token
/home/nochka85/cairo-dock_BZR/cairo-dock-plug-ins/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:80:1: error: expected expression before ‘==’ token
/home/nochka85/cairo-dock_BZR/cairo-dock-plug-ins/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:132:1: error: expected expression before ‘<<’ token
/home/nochka85/cairo-dock_BZR/cairo-dock-plug-ins/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:135:1: error: expected expression before ‘==’ token
/home/nochka85/cairo-dock_BZR/cairo-dock-plug-ins/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:143:1: error: expected expression before ‘>>’ token
/home/nochka85/cairo-dock_BZR/cairo-dock-plug-ins/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:151:1: error: expected expression before ‘<<’ token
/home/nochka85/cairo-dock_BZR/cairo-dock-plug-ins/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:153:1: error: expected expression before ‘==’ token
make[2]: *** [Impulse/src/CMakeFiles/cd-Impulse.dir/applet-impulse.c.o] Erreur 1
make[1]: *** [Impulse/src/CMakeFiles/cd-Impulse.dir/all] Erreur 2
make: *** [all] Erreur 2
Veuillez consulter le fichier log.txt pour plus d'informations et vous rendre sur le forum de cairo-dock pour reporter l'erreur dans la section "Version BZR". Merci !

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matttbe, Sunday 24 July 2011 à 12:25


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Je parie que tu as des conflits avec BZR dans les plug-ins

cd /home/nochka85/cairo-dock_BZR/cairo-dock-plug-ins/
bzr revert
bzr resolve
bzr pull
(ça devrait fonctionner )

taiebot65, Thursday 28 July 2011 à 23:36


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Est ce que c'est normal qu'il n'y ait plus d'animations lors que les fenetres sont agrandies et que l'on rappelle le dock.
Je suis certain que les animations etaient presentes avant.

Video http://videobin.org/+4xi/5bc.html

matttbe, Sunday 31 July 2011 à 13:56


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Est ce que c'est normal qu'il n'y ait plus d'animations lors que les fenetres sont agrandies et que l'on rappelle le dock.
Yes and no

@ fabounet: in fact, I check if the dock is hidden or not in order to not compute the signal and animate the dock with that:
if (pDock->bTemporaryHidden)
This boolean is set as FALSE if a window is in a fullscreen mode even if the dock is show. What can I do in order to know if the dock is popped up in this situation? (I think I've check with other booleans without any success

nochka85, Tuesday 02 August 2011 à 18:46


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Is it possible to have a scrolling bar (like alsamixer) to modify the sensibility quickly? (and add the option to adjust the sensitivity with the volume.... Even if it's working only with the main volume ?)

And by the way: I really like this applet !!! Well done Matt !

EDIT : and I also REALLY appreciate the "Send" button on the left for the answers on the website !

matttbe, Wednesday 03 August 2011 à 08:10


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Is it possible to have a scrolling bar (like alsamixer) to modify the sensibility quickly?
yes it's possible but it's a bit strange because I don't have to do that... If I listen to any music I don't have to change the sound volume thanks to a plug-in on RB or Banshee to have a constant sound volume for all songs (smthg like replay gain...)

and add the option to adjust the sensitivity with the volume.... Even if it's working only with the main volume ?
Maybe there is smthg strange with pulseaudio on your computer but the sensitivity doesn't change if you modify the sound volume of the master, only if you reduce the sound volume of the application (you can do that directly on Rhythmbox, Totem, VLC,...) but do you do that so often?

fabounet, Thursday 04 August 2011 à 13:32


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to know if the dock is hidden, there is a function (something like cairo_dock_is_hidden, you can grep "_hidden" in the .h)

matttbe, Thursday 04 August 2011 à 23:28


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Yes but it's what I do:
#define cairo_dock_is_temporary_hidden(pDock) (pDock)->bTemporaryHidden
So is it a bug?

fabounet, Friday 05 August 2011 à 14:37


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oh, it's not this one
I think this one is for the quick-hide you have in the menu.
there should be another one

matttbe, Sunday 07 August 2011 à 16:07


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@ taiebot65 (or somebody else): can you install the revision 2053 and confirm if this bug is fixed or not (I can't test it right know with this old notebook without PulseAudio )

taiebot65, Sunday 07 August 2011 à 17:31


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yep it's fixed

Guest, Monday 10 October 2011 à 19:18

Thanks nochka85! Your post with your setting was very helpful.

ppmt The scale needs to reviewed. I usually listen to music with the volume below 50%.

I liked the Pulse effect. Instead of bounce.

Also I found that I had to play with the Pulse Audio source index until I found the correct one.

Knuckl3head, Monday 08 July 2013 à 02:52


Subscription date : 08 July 2013
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I am currently having the same problem as @nochka84 did, I did the terminal thing, and this is what the result was:
Impulse: No Signal? 256
debug : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.0.0.1/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:_animate_the_dock:108)
Impulse: No Signal? 256


I am using Linux Mint 13 with backport updates from Linux Mint 15.

--EDIT--

Sorry, I had to update my system, it's working great now!

matttbe, Monday 08 July 2013 à 10:25


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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Easy to fix

Feel free to use our ppa in order to install the 3.2.1 version if it's not in your backport repo

Guest, Monday 08 September 2014 à 05:08

Same error for me.


debug : (/build/buildd/cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.3.99.beta1.2.really.3.3.2/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c:_animate_the_dock:108)
Impulse: No Signal? 256


Any hints?

Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
cairo-dock 3.3.2
pulseaudio is running

matttbe, Monday 08 September 2014 à 09:32


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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Did you try with other channels?

Guest, Monday 08 September 2014 à 12:28

It works for me now, with channel 1! But Iam absolutely sure, that i have tested all of them, before i made these post. :/

matttbe, Monday 08 September 2014 à 14:31


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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But Iam absolutely sure, that i have tested all of them, before i made these post.
Maybe you did that just after an update of PulseAudio or something like that. Not a big deal if it works now

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[Locked] Impulse applet: Let's the dock dancing.
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