Is there another volume control sliding bar for Xfce?
Solution 1
It looks like you're not using the default Xfce volume slider (perhaps in Xubuntu it is default, but not in Xfce). I suspect that you're using the indicator plugin, which I don't like nor use. I would suggest that you try adding Audio Mixer
plugin to the panel.
To have it available you need to:
sudo apt-get install xfce4-mixer
Solution 2
On Xubuntu 16.04 the xfce4-mixer
plugin is no longer available.
Try
sudo apt install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
(which is not in the goodies
package)
Solution 3
I used to replace GTK3 indicator (buggy) with the GTK2 one :
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Open with superuser rights the file
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/indicator-sound.service
(Mousepad is the default file-editor in Xubuntu, replace it with Gedit or Leafpad if necessary) :gksu mousepad /usr/share/dbus-1/services/indicator-sound.service
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Comment the existing line (comment = add a
#
at the beginning of the line) and add this line under (This will load GTK2 indicator if XFCE is running, and GTK3 one for Gnome/Unity/Others) :Exec=/bin/sh -c 'if [ -n "$(ps -U $USER | grep xfce4-panel)" ]; then /usr/lib/indicator-sound-gtk2/indicator-sound-service;else /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service;fi'
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Your file should look like this in the end :
[D-BUS Service] Name=com.canonical.indicator.sound #Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service Exec=/bin/sh -c 'if [ -n "$(ps -U $USER | grep xfce4-panel)" ]; then /usr/lib/indicator-sound-gtk2/indicator-sound-service;else /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service;fi'
You can also try new indicators by installing xfce4-goodies
:
sudo apt-get install xfce4-goodies
Another indicator is, as suggested by landroni, xfce4-mixer
:
sudo apt-get install xfce4-mixer
Lynob
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Lynob over 1 year
I'm on Xubuntu 13.10 64 bit. I've recently had this issue. As a result the sliding bar that is used to control the volume is gone. I can live without it, I can control the volume from my keyboard but I'd like to know if I can install an alternative to the default sliding bar.
I have Xfce4 version 4.10. My volume indicator looks like this, I don't know what it's called, but it's the default one
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Aaron Hall over 5 yearsLooks like the old accept is no longer valid... this is the reason accepts should float after a certain point in time...
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Lynob over 5 years@AaronHall What should I accept now? I'm no longer on Xubuntu. Besides this question is for Xubuntu 13.10, which reached its end of life, Newer versions might have a different answer
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Aaron Hall over 5 yearsI would remove the 13.10 tag, unaccept the current accept, and let the answers float. That would probably help the most people going forward...
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Lynob about 10 yearsthere's no file called
indicator-sound.service
on my entire computer, cause i ranwhereis indicator-sound.service
and didn't return anything, certainly not in/usr/share/dbus-1/services/indicator-sound.service
andsudo apt-get install xfce-goodies
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MrVaykadji about 10 yearsMy bad, it is xfce4-goodies. And for the indicator-sound.service, you SHOULD have it if you're running Xubuntu 13.10. Maybe you have an Ubuntu + XFCE instead ?
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Lynob about 10 yearsmaybe because I disabled the service as indicated in the link above? or not?
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MrVaykadji about 10 yearsthe service you disabled is speech-dispatcher, it has nothing (of my knowledge) to do with sound-indicator.
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Lynob about 10 yearsI don't know, i just cant find that file, and about the goodies, I see tons of cool stuff but i see no sound indicator
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MrVaykadji about 10 yearsI don't have Xubuntu installed anymore, but I know that this workaround was working for me on 13.10. Maybe you can try this, reboot, and if there's no change, just delete the line you added and the
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