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First run

The panel finds your audio devices and applications on its own — there is nothing to configure before it is useful. Pick the layout that suits your window from the four on offer; it will reflow to fit whatever size you leave it at.

Devices you never use can be stowed out of the way, and anything can be renamed to whatever you actually call it rather than what the driver calls it.

Free and full

The split is the same on Windows and Linux.

• Free, forever: volume and mute per device and per application, live VU meters, stow tray, renaming, microphone monitoring.
• Full version: per-application routing, default-device switching (TX / MIC), presets and their shortcuts.

There is a 7-day trial of the full version. No account, and no network access is used for any of it.

Entering a licence key

Keys are verified offline, against a public key embedded in the app. Nothing is sent anywhere — the Flatpak has no network permission at all, which you can confirm for yourself in its permissions.

Buy a key at /apps/audio-panel/buy and paste it into the licence box in the app.

Shortcuts — this is not what Windows does

On Windows the app registers global hotkeys itself. On Linux it cannot, and that is a property of the platform rather than a missing feature:

• Wayland deliberately has no key-grab for clients, so an application cannot claim a global hotkey.
• The GlobalShortcuts portal that would otherwise cover this is absent on GNOME 46.

So each preset is exposed as an addressable action instead, and you bind it in your own desktop's keyboard settings — where all your other shortcuts already live.

List the actions available to you:

proper-audio-panel --shortcuts-status

Fire one:

proper-audio-panel --apply-preset <id>

Bind that second command to a key in your desktop's keyboard settings and the preset works exactly as a global hotkey would — it is just your desktop, not the app, that owns the binding.