KDE/Plasma Command Output Mic Mute Status Script

• Little script I made that shows if my mic is muted or not for the KDE/Plasma command output widget.

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This script assumes you are on Ubuntu 22.04.2, and use Pulseaudio/alsa. Any other configurations may or may not work, I have not tested them and won't be providing support for them.

Requires fontawesome package installed for the mic icons to show next to the text.

• For Ubuntu the package is fonts-font-awesome but it may vary depending on your Linux distribution (if it's not that you will have to search around).

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When unmuted it shows the unmuted icon to the left of the word "Unmuted" in green text.

When muted it shows the muted icon to the right of the word "Muted" in red text.

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Extras

To add an action for when you left-click the command output widget to toggle mute for the mic, put this in a file and name it togglemicmute.sh

#/usr/bin/env bash

#toggle mic muted/unmuted state
qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kmix invokeShortcut "mic_mute"

Then add it in the command output configuration for the on click action by calling the script via this line

/bin/bash /locationofscript/togglemicmute.sh

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Credits

• Credit for Mute status check logic is from this askUbuntu comment posted by "pragman".
• Credit for if statement null value checking is from this Unix StackExchange comment posted by "terdon".
• Credit for getting colors to work with printf (which also allowed fontawesome icons to display as an added bonus) is from this StackOverflow comment posted by "Vlad".

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NO SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN. SCRIPT IS PROVIDED AS IS.