Ubuntu 11 new sound applet

[edgreenberg]

I have a pretty "experienced" home directory. It's existed (with Gnome) under Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu 8,9,10 and now 11.04. I keep carrying all the dot (hidden) files along with me, and I get almost the same environment each time I upgrade or move things around.

When I moved to 11.04, and set Gnome as my default instead of Unity, I got my old volume control instead of the new integrated sound controller, that appears in my Notification Area.

I can kill the volume control, and keep it from starting on login, but I can't figure out how to get the new applet to start and run at all.

Can anybody tell me what's going on under the hood and how to fix?

Thanks,
EdG

[kerry_s]

Remove gnome-volume-control-applet from startup, make sure you have indicator-sound installed.

[edgreenberg]

Thanks, Kerry, Your suggestions got me on a good start.

I had to also remove the Notification Area applet and add the Indicator Applet (there were a bunch of choices for indicator applets with varying collections of indicators.) That brought up a good collection of indicators, including the sound indicator. Pidgin only shows up as a submenu of the Envelope Icon (connectivity?) so I re-added notificiation area, which surfaces the Pidgin icon.

Ed