patray

Patray stands for PulseAudioTray. It is "yet another pulseaudio frontend".

Default view

Configuring

Reasons

• Brilliant yktoo sound switcher lacks of volume control
• pasystray have too much options and heavy interface
• No simple tray for all in one menu:
  • port switching with radio buttons
  • volume control scroll bar

Features

• Card profile switches
• Profile port switches
• Profile volume slider
• Port filters by mask
• Configurable UI view: combo or radio

License

patray is offered under MIT license.

Requirements

• python 3.7+

Installation

$ python -m pip install patray

Usage

Common usecase is:

$ python -m patray ~/.patray.config.yml

Configuration options are built on cock logic, so you need to run

$ python -m patray --help

to see all available options. But you can pass all options via command line interface, or even via environemnt vairables.

Example

For version 0.1.2 help output looks like this:

$ python -m patray --help
Usage: patray [OPTIONS] [CONFIGURATION_FILE]

Options:
  --profile-enabled BOOLEAN      [default: True]
  --profile-style [combo|radio]  [default: combo]
  --profile-weight FLOAT         [default: 1.0]
  --port-enabled BOOLEAN         [default: True]
  --port-style [combo|radio]     [default: radio]
  --port-maximum-volume INTEGER  [default: 100]
  --port-hide-by-mask TEXT
  --port-weight FLOAT            [default: 1.0]
  --log-level TEXT               [default: INFO]
  --icon-path FILE
  --icon-color TEXT              Use `random` value for random color on each
                                 click  [default: #fff]

  --version                      Show the version and exit.  [default: False]
  --help                         Show this message and exit.  [default: False]

You can see all defaults and all «flat» keys. Your configuration file can look like this:

icon-color: random
profile:
  enabled: true
  style: combo
port:
  enabled: true
  style: radio
  weight: 0.95
  maximum-volume: 100
  hide-by-mask:
    - "Front*"
    - "Rear*"
    - "Line In*"

You can see, that each - in flat cli argument name can be cutted off to create tree-like config.