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Vicious.register with volume control causes Awesome to hang

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– If a subprocess hangs your awesome will hang. That's how it is.What your widget is doing is executing "amixer get Master", and that appears to hang now. What happens if you execute it from a terminal emulator? anrxc https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=15467 2011-06-19T03:15:32Z ()

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Submitted by Tagmego on 06/19/2011

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boot hangs at laptop-mode 1 year 2 weeks ago

It just hangs when loading the laptop-mode module and sits there at [BUSY] foreveIf you use the battery level polling module you are affected by a stupid bug in its helper https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29980

anrxc https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=15467

2012-05-31T00:51:27Z

Run 'awsetbg -i' then determine why chosen wallpaper setter, if any is found at all, is failing to load image, if there is an image at all, specified in theme.wallpaper_cmd, if there is a valid  wallpaper_cmd key at all.

anrxc https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=15467

2012-07-26T23:36:59Z

Nice work, I really get annoyed by the lack of abstraction in ecryptfs-utils and Ubuntu defaults being hard-coded. But you did something about it, really commendable

anrxc https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=15467

2012-05-31T00:54:30Z

Really no one knows a real solution? Dave said that he "cannot reproduce any hang with the single daemon process." .. can you please tell us, how you achieve this?

Evilandi666 https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=43626

2012-09-26T08:37:12Z

Every time you see "Master" in that script, you will have to change it to the name of your microphone control, which is probably "Mic".

ConnorBehan https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=11600

2012-05-09T00:39:01Z

This is a new thing and didn't happen before, but I don't know after which "pacman -Syu" this started to happen exactly:After I enter my crecedentials in Slim and X starts up it will hang at the "grey" blank screen for like 20-30s until the desktop finally appears and the apps are loaded etc.

Jindur https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=52724

2012-08-

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ot_process

jasonwryan https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25579

2013-06-08T06:31:20Z

hi, i read your post quickly and i'm tired so I see your rc.lua not in details but I find this different in my rc.lua:your config: require("vicious")my config: local vicious = require("vicious")I don't remember where I read about this change (probably in wiki of awesome or here, I don't know now) , but is necesary..

Looking at the amixer man page, the mapping mentioned earlier can be invoked in amixer with the -M flag. So using amixer -M [...] works in the units that you see in alsamixer. These are "more natural for human ear".