linuxmint/Cinnamon — pull request #1397 by skyen-hasus (2012-11-23 01:33:20+00:00)
Title: Sound Applet: Added support for quick muting via middle click

Hello,
One thing I miss in Cinnamon is the support for quickly muting the default sound output. I've added support to this feature via middle-button clicking on the applet to toggle the sound on/off.

Another user was also asking for this at .

Although this problem was solved by `mtwebster`, I didn't like his solution, it's not fast enough for me (having to right click the applet to open a menu is annoying). I think since the middle mouse button is already used for scrolling the sound, it would be more intuitive to use the middle button click to quickly mute the sound.

What I did was extend the original "button released" event and add a middle button condition that mutes the default sound output.