Subject: Re: Volume control freezes while media is playing (KDE Plasma 6, Wayland)
On Wed, 14 Jan 2026, Harun wrote:
Hello,
for the past couple of days I have been experiencing an issue with audio volume control on my Debian system.
FYI, I'm not an audio wizard, and I am unfamiliar with your entire
setup except for the fact that I also watch videos on YouTube and use
debian to do so. But it's been a week, nobody else seems to have
replied to this thread.
When media is playing (for example a YouTube video in Firefox), the volume control sometimes freezes and does not respond.
You say "sometimes" here. So it sounds like sometimes the volume
control *does* work as expected, even while media is playing.
As soon as I pause the video, the volume control immediately starts
working again.
I am curious how you operate "the volume control"? With an arrow key
on a keyboard? With a mouseclick? With a little wheel on the mouse?
Something else?
I have noticed, while watching videos on Youtube in my web browser
(not firefox), that if the focused element (a hyperlink, say) is on
the "wrong" part of the page, then the keystrokes I expect to
reduce/increase volume don't function as expected.
Activating the "pause" symbol, in the player embedded on the page, (or
any other widget on the embedded player) will return focus to the
"correct" part of the page, which knows that uparrow means "increase
volume" and that downarrow means "decrease volume".
This behavior is consistent:
-
media playing \u2192 volume control frozen
-
media paused \u2192 volume control works normally
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Are you here saying that volume control works ONLY when media is
paused? That is quite different from what you say in the second
paragraph of your report.
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