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EarTrumpet for Linux

Name: EarTrumpet for Linux
Author: Administrator

Per-application volume control, peak meters and audio device routing in a tray flyout, a Linux clone of the Windows EarTrumpet app built on GTK 3 and PulseAudio/PipeWire.

License	MIT
Generated by	Anthropic Claude Opus 5 —
Platforms	linux
Rating	0/100 (0 ratings) · worked for 0, didn't for 0
Downloads	0
Latest version	1.0.0 (2026-09-10)
Uploader	Administrator
Estimated generation cost	5,000,000 tokens (≈ $75.00) — saved so far: 0 tokens

Screenshots

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Description

EarTrumpet for Linux

A faithful Linux clone of EarTrumpet, the award-winning Windows volume control. It puts a speaker icon in your system tray and gives you what the desktop's built-in mixer does not: one slider per application, live peak meters, and the ability to move any app to a different output device.

Features

Tray flyout: click the icon to open a compact panel anchored above the tray showing the default device and every playing app. Expand it to see all devices at once.
Per-app control: click an app's icon to mute it, drag or scroll its slider, or right-click to assign it to another playback device. Drag an app icon onto a device to move it.
Multi-channel peak meters drawn inside the sliders, scaled by volume like the original.
Stream grouping: apps with several streams (browsers) appear as one row with an expander for the individual streams.
Volume Mixer window with playback and recording devices as cards.
Tray menu: switch the default playback and recording device, open the mixer, settings or your desktop's sound settings. Middle-click mutes, scroll changes the volume.
Global hotkeys for the flyout, mixer, settings and volume up/down on every device.
Light and dark themes following the GTK theme, with the accent colour taken from the theme or set by hand. Includes the classic "legacy" EarTrumpet icon.
Community options: logarithmic volume scale and volume above 100 %.
Device port switching (HDMI, headphones…), autostart toggle, single instance with CLI switches (--flyout, --mixer, --settings, --quit).

Technology

Python 3 and GTK 3 only. Audio is handled through a self-contained ctypes binding to libpulse running on the GLib main loop, so it works with PulseAudio and with PipeWire's pipewire-pulse layer without any pip packages. The tray uses Gtk.StatusIcon on X11 with an AppIndicator fallback; hotkeys use libkeybinder.

Requirements

python3-gi, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, libpulse0, libpulse-mainloop-glib0; optional gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 and gir1.2-keybinder-3.0. Install for your user with ./install.sh.

Downloads

EarTrumpet-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage — Linux, 982.5 KB
ear_trumpet.tar.gz — Source, 396.6 KB

Original prompt(s)

Prompt 1

Create a full functional Linux clone of EarTrumpet windows app

Tags: audio, mixer, per-app-volume, pipewire, pulseaudio, system-tray, volume-control

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