GNOME tip of the day

Avoiding turning your screen on to raise/lower sound on your computer.

I have a CRT screen at home. When I listen to some music without being in front of the computer, I turn the screen off, to avoid useless power consumption. However, I don’t like using my speakers’ buttons to regulate the sound level. I prefer to do it by software, but i’d need to turn the screen on again to do that.

So here is my GNOME tip of the day:

• Step 1: move your mixer applet to one corner

So I moved the mixer applet at the top right corner of my desktop (works for every corner). For that, you need to unlock the mixer applet and every applet that would prevent it from going on the destop corner. To move the applet, use the traditionnal middle mouse drag-and-drop.

• Step 2: turn your screen off
• Step 3: move you mouse trying to go to the corner were you put the mixer applet
• Step 4: roll your mouse wheel up or down to raise/lower the sound.