Volume control?

[Mike Massonnet]

2009/11/13 Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:49 AM, David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM, 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?
>>>
>>> Have a look at xfce4-mixer.
>>>
>>> ~David
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>>
>> Thanks. Building it now.
>>
>> Back later.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>
> OK, that works fine as an app. I'm having some trouble adding it to
> the panel though. It shows up in the list of items I can add, and it
> seems it to act like it's being added, but I don't see an icon
> anywhere on the panel.

Right click the panel > add new item. And select the mixer. You can
use the plugin to launch the mixer application on click and scroll
with the mouse to turn the volume up and down.

For the record, the gnome volume control is provided with gnome-media.
I don't know, but it may not always happen that this application is
split into a smaller package by distros.

Another thing you can do is install xfce4-volumed. It will use the
multimedia keys volume up/down/mute from the keyboard :-)

> I'd like to fix this but at least my wife will be happy with even
> starting the app from the menu.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Welcome
-- 
Mike