Volume control?

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:46:37 -0800
Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>    I've switched my wife to XFCE4 from Gnome and she's liking it. As
> we're Gentoo-based I left Gnome on for a while but removed it
> yesterday. Turns out she was using the gnome-volume-control applet on
> her panel to control volume and that's now gone. I am looking around
> in the things XFCE4 seems to provide and I don't seem to be finding a
> replacement for controlling volume. Is there one? What do more
> experienced folks use?
> 
>    I don't think she'll be happy with alsamixer in a terminal. Is
> there a lightweight volume control supplied withXFCE that possibly I
> haven't emerged onto her system?

Since you're running Gentoo, I suppose your Xfce is 4.6? You could try
xfce4-mixer then which ships a standalone mixer application and a panel
plugin. Even with 4.2 and 4.4 there was an xfce4-mixer package but it
wasn't quite as usable, I'd say.

Cheers,
Jannis
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