gnome-applet-volume-control is a huge usability regression

[Colin Law]

On 19 August 2012 17:00, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 August 2012 11:36:14 Colin Law did opine:
>
>> On 19 August 2012 12:00, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 19 August 2012 06:39:59 Colin Law did opine:
>> >> On 19 August 2012 11:02, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> >> > Greetings all;
>> >> >
>> >> > Ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS
>> >> >
>> >> > Some so-called update in the last 2 weeks has moved the system
>> >> > volume control from my keyboard, to a teeny little icon in the
>> >> > notifier applet.
>> [snip]
>>
>> Was that re-boot after you noticed that the volume keys were not
>> working?  If not then I think you have to do a re-boot before doing
>> anything else.
>
> No, they were working up to the reboot

So you have not rebooted since the problem started.  It probably won't
help, but you have to do it, sorry.

> [snip]

>> You could still put it in a single script and run that manually once X
>> is up,   Or call it from Startup Applications and then it will run
>> after logon if that is what you mean.
>
> Humm, I looked at that, but its not abundantly clear how to do that. Some
> guidance or a tut URL would be nice.

Which bit don't you know how to do?  You said you had a set of scripts
that had to be hand started in sequence, is the problem that you don't
know how to make a single script to call all those, or you don't know
how to make it run on login?

Colin