asound master toggle doesnt unmute
asound master toggle doesnt unmute People whose multimedia keyboard keys are not working by default (or users of lightweight WM like awesome/i3 etc) set up the keys themselves. It used to be a well known solution to use amixer to handle sound up/down/mute keys. For example see gentoo wiki. But in Ubuntu the command amixer -q set Master toggle works in one direction - it mutes, but doesnt unmute. To be short - theres a bug filed, theres a script somewhere posted as a workaround, and theres a one-liner workaround Ive posted in the bug comment. amixer -q -D pulse set Master 1+ toggle Dont forget to vote for the bug!