Keep losing my volume control?

Andrew Robinson andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 21:04:58 CEST 2007


Okay, started it in a screen instance, will report back next time it goes away.

On 10/22/07, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/22/07, Andrew Robinson <andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have the volume control plugin added to my xfce panel. At times (not
> > sure exactly when), it keeps disappearing on me (no longer in the
> > panel). When I re-add it, it goes back to the default settings
> > (wannabe master and device are no longer set to my previous settings).
>
> The mixer applet is external, meaning a seperate process runs in the
> background, so that mixer bugs don't cause the whole panel to crash.
> This process is exiting for some reason, and the applet gets removed.
>
> If you readd any applet, the new instance of the applet gets a new
> config file, for various reasons, including if your settings are
> what's causing the applet to crash. This is why you have to reconfig
> each time.
>
> I don't see the problem over here on either my work machine or my home
> machine, both running ubuntu, recently upgraded from feisty.
>
> You could try killing the panel, and rerunning it from a terminal,
> then wait for the applet to vanish, then check the terminal for
> errors.
>
> >
> > Any ideas on this problem?
> >
> > xfce4-panel 4.4.1-1-ubuntu3
> > xfce4-mixer-alsa 1:4.4.1-3ubuntu1
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Andrew
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> Erik
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