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diff --git a/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/README b/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/README
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+Use-case example.
+
+Assume you have program that display the audio volume.
+This program checks every second third if the volume
+have changed.
+
+Also assume that you use amixer to change the volume,
+most often by using keybindings via xbindkeys.
+
+To reduce the delay, you want to send a signal to the
+monitor program that the volume have changed. For this
+more primitive IPC is sufficient, but lets assume there
+are other programs interested in this information too.
+
+To accomplish this, you create a wrapper for amixer
+than broadcasts updates on a bus. This wrapper is
+installed as ~/.local/bin/amixer, and ~/.local/bin/
+is included in $PATH before /usr/bin.
+
+
+
+Before starting run ~/.init, this code is
+should be run from your profile file if you
+want to implement this on your system.
+
+After running ~/.init, you can start one
+or more listeners by running ~/.alsa-monitor.
+
+To change the volume run
+`./amixer -c 0 -- set Master 5%+` or similar.
+
+When you are done run ~/.cleanup
+
diff --git a/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/amixer b/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/amixer
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+#!/bin/sh
+/usr/bin/amixer "$@"
+for arg in "$@"; do
+    if [ "${arg}" = "set" ] || [ "${arg}" = "sset" ] || [ "${arg}" = "cset" ]; then
+	exec bus broadcast "/tmp/example-bus" '0 volume-changed *'
+    fi
+done
+
diff --git a/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/cleanup b/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/cleanup
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+#!/bin/sh
+exec bus remove "/tmp/example-bus"
+
diff --git a/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/init b/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/init
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+#!/bin/sh
+bus create "/tmp/example-bus"
+
+# The following code is more suitable in the real world,
+# if used, the other files should use "${BUS_AUDIO}"
+# instead of "/tmp/example-bus".
+# 
+# export BUS_AUDIO="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/bus/audio"
+# if [ ! -f "${BUS_AUDIO}" ]; then
+#     bus create "${BUS_AUDIO}"
+# fi
+
diff --git a/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/monitor b/doc/examples/audio-volume-control/monitor
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+#!/bin/sh
+if [ $# = 1 ]; then
+    if [ "$(echo "${1}" | cut -d ' ' -f 2)" = "volume-changed" ]; then
+	printf '\e[H\e[2J'
+	amixer get Master
+    fi
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+exec 2>/dev/null
+
+printf '\e[?1049h\e[H\e[2J'
+trap -- "printf '\e[?1049l'" SIGINT
+bus listen "/tmp/example-bus" \'"${0/\'/\'\\\'\'}"\'' "${arg}"'
+