Volume control?

[David Mohr]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:36 AM, David Mohr <david at mcbf.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> For what it's worth, I'm seeing the same issue on Gentoo. I haven't
> debugged it, because I only added the mixer to instruct someone on how
> to use it. So it might be related to the packaging. You can either
> file a bug with Gentoo, or try to debug it by i.e. looking at stderr
> from your X session.

I was just playing with this a bit: I removed the mixer applet (a
small button will highlight if you hover the mouse over it, that was
the only way for me to find out where the applet is), and added it
again. Now the icon shows up like it is supposed to.

I did update my system since then, so my guess is that maybe the icon
cache needed updating? Try running gtk-update-icon-cache as root.

~David