Bug #17322

Allow raising sound volume above 100%

Added by Anonymous 2019-12-07 06:32:20 . Updated 2020-05-08 07:58:14 .

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Accessibility
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Description

I have hearing problems and the ability to turn the volume up more than 100% through sound settings has gone since 4.0 which means it became so difficult to work on anything with audio.

Please bring it back or add this option in accessibility.

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Related issues

Blocks Tails - Feature #16209: Core work: Foundations Team Confirmed

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2019-12-12 08:04:36

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2019-12-12 08:04:57

  • Subject changed from volume too low for the impaired to Allow raising sound volume above 100%

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2019-12-12 08:05:14

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed
  • Priority changed from High to Normal

At least on sid, this can be fixed by setting the org.gnome.desktop.sound allow-volume-above-100-percent dconf setting to true. I did not test this on Tails 4.x.

I’ve put this on the FT’s plate as this is a regression compared to 3.x and it can make Tails much harder to use for some of our users.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2020-05-08 07:58:14

I confirm that on Tails 4.6, gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound allow-volume-above-100-percent true fixes that.

IMO we should apply this both for the desktop session (amnesia user) and for the Welcome Screen (Debian-gdm).