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Holding a volume key loses most steps: overlapping omarchy-audio-output-volume runs race
Reported by Sha01in · filed Oct 10, 2026 · open at source
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Original report
System details
Google Pixelbook (Eve, 2017), Core i5-7Y57, Omarchy 4.0.4, linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3. bin/omarchy-audio-output-volume is unchanged on quattro.
What's wrong?
Holding volume up or down moves the volume much less than the number of key repeats. Each repeat starts a new omarchy-audio-output-volume, and they overlap: each run reads the current volume with pactl, adds 5% and writes it back, so overlapping runs read the same value and overwrite each other.
Reproduce with 10 overlapping presses 25 ms apart, which is what a held key does at repeat_rate = 40:
sink=$(omarchy-audio-output-sink)
pactl set-sink-volume "$sink" 20%
for i in $(seq 10); do omarchy-audio-output-volume raise & sleep 0.025; done; wait
pactl get-sink-volume "$sink"Expected 70%. In three runs I got 40%, 35% and 40%: only 3-4 of 10 steps applied. Each run takes 0.4-0.7 s on this CPU (it resolves the sink, reads the volume, sets mute and volume, reads it again and starts omarchy-osd), so a held key has many runs in flight. A faster machine narrows the window but the race is still there.
A fix would be to serialize the read-modify-write with flock, or skip a repeat while the previous run is still going (flock -n), which also stops OSD calls piling up. A relative wpctl set-volume -l 1.0 <id> 5%+ alone isn't enough: it's also read-modify-write inside wpctl, and I still lost a step in 10 with it.
#14683 sends the bar wheel and slider through this script too, which makes this path hotter. There are already three open PRs touching the script (#13405, #14683, #14813), so I didn't want to open a fourth without asking first. Happy to send one if useful.
AI disclosure: I found and measured this with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) and checked the results myself.
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### System details Google Pixelbook (Eve, 2017), Core i5-7Y57, Omarchy 4.0.4, linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3. `bin/omarchy-audio-output-volume` is unchanged on quattro. ### What's wrong? Holding volume up or down moves the volume much less than the number of key repeats. Each repeat starts a new `omarchy-audio-output-volume`, and they overlap: each run reads the current volume with `pactl`, adds 5% and writes it back, so overlapping runs read the same value and overwrite each other. Reproduce with 10 overlapping presses 25 ms apart, which is what a held key does at `repeat_rate = 40`: ``` sink=$(omarchy-audio-output-sink) pactl set-sink-volume "$sink" 20% for i in $(seq 10); do omarchy-audio-output-volume raise & sleep 0.025; done; wait pactl get-sink-volume "$sink" ``` Expected 70%. In three runs I got 40%, 35% and 40%: only 3-4 of 10 steps applied. Each run takes 0.4-0.7 s on this CPU (it resolves the sink, reads the volume, sets mute and volume, reads it again and starts `omarchy-osd`), so a held key has many runs in flight. A faster machine narrows the window but the race is still there. A fix would be to serialize the read-modify-write with `flock`, or skip a repeat while the previous run is still going (`flock -n`), which also stops OSD calls piling up. A relative `wpctl set-volume -l 1.0 <id> 5%+` alone isn't enough: it's also read-modify-write inside wpctl, and I still lost a step in 10 with it. #14683 sends the bar wheel and slider through this script too, which makes this path hotter. There are already three open PRs touching the script (#13405, #14683, #14813), so I didn't want to open a fourth without asking first. Happy to send one if useful. AI disclosure: I found and measured this with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) and checked the results myself.
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- Out of scopeDecided by agents · verified · 2026-10-10 13:01 UTC