xfce4 mixer panel applet: no volume bar after jaunty upgrade?

[skralljt]

xfce4 used to have a useful mixer applet that had a sort of bar that you could control the volume with by dragging or clicking higher or lower on that bar, which after upgrading to jaunty is gone - now it is just a button that opens up a mixer program. What happened to the lovely volume panel button?

[Brandon Williams]

I just learned that the new applet controls the mixer, but only if you have a scroll wheel (or similar). Point the mouse at the applet and use the scroll wheel to raise or lower the volume.

I don't like this as much as just being able to point-and-click, but then, I don't use the applet at all any more. All of my keyboards have multimedia keys, and I normally use those to control the volume.

[charding]

@skralljt: I also REALLY liked this bar volume control. I could just use the scroll on my touchpad to adjust the sound easily. Now it's gone. I just upgraded last night!

This really sucks,

[etnlIcarus]

@skralljt: I also REALLY liked this bar volume control. I could just use the scroll on my touchpad to adjust the sound easily. Now it's gone. I just upgraded last night!

This really sucks,

The new applet works the same way. just hover your cursor over it and use the trackpad scroll emulation.

[DapperMe17]

Very nice new feature....volume control via the trackpad.

That helped me out.

Thanks

[skralljt]

Wow, that is great.
To fill anybody in who is interested, this volume control applet disappearing was only a symptom of a much larger problem with xfce as a whole; I was having a problem with lots of instances of xfce4panel or some other xfce constituent spawning, until I had hundreds upon hundreds of them. I don't remember exactly what transpired except that I fiddled with something and then the next reboot, my xfce4-panel was filled to the brim with applet icons! Something revived the ones that had stopped working, and added them to the ones that had been working and the ones I replaced the formerly defunct ones with. Perhaps two session profiles were combined into one. At any rate, I deleted all of the copies and now everything is back to normal. Better than before, even.
Now if only the xfce developers would make it so that I don't need a mouse when logging in. During startup when the xfce session chooser pops up there is no way that I am aware of to choose the session with just the keyboard. Tab, directional keys, nothing works except plugging in a usb mouse. Hopefully I never lose my mouse!


I just learned that the new applet controls the mixer, but only if you have a scroll wheel (or similar). Point the mouse at the applet and use the scroll wheel to raise or lower the volume.

I don't like this as much as just being able to point-and-click, but then, I don't use the applet at all any more. All of my keyboards have multimedia keys, and I normally use those to control the volume.