Volume control?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM, David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> wrote:
> 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

Hi David,
   Pretty strange. I guess I had maybe 4 copies of the mixer on my
panel. None of them were obviously visible. I found them by hovering
as you suggested. They showed up as very narrow vertical strips. When
I remove them for a brief moment I see the icon as it's being removed.
However adding new mixers to the panel results in the same thing -
just a small vertical strip with no icon.

   I tried the gtk-update-icon-cache suggestion but it suggests to me
there's some problem:

dragonfly ~ # gtk-update-icon-cache
dragonfly ~ # gtk-update-icon-cache -v
gtk-update-icon-cache: File not found:
dragonfly ~ #

and nothing changes.

   Sort of stumped at this point. If it matters my panel is bottom
center, 28 pixels and the width changes based on how many things I add
to it but it doesn't take up the whole bottom of the screen.

   I am able to create a launcher on the desktop that works, and I can
select the xfce4-mixer icon and I see it correctly. (I think - it was
strange when I first added it but it seems OK now.)

   While I was finding this icon I noted that the little vertical
strip I'm seeing on the panel seems to be the xfce4-separator icon. Go
figure...

Thanks,
Mark