Sound control is gone, menus weird in 18.04.1

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 4:05 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Update:
>
> The sound control (pavucontrol) is still accessible from the
> Multimedia menu, but it doesn't respond to the keyboard as it used to
> - I have a Dell keyboard with multimedia controls, and they're all
> dead.
>
> I suppose I took it for granted they'd continue to work, and nothing.
>
> Disappointing....

Second update:

I found /usr/bin/xfdesktop-settings, and those work.  I even get a
menu when I right-click the desktop.

Looks like I mainly need to know how to reset the mouse button
settings to point at the right apps.

And I still have no volume or sound control in the panel - pavucontrol
with a keyboard short-cut is handy, but it doesn't replace key-stroke
actions (volume up, down, pause, play, stop, etc.) or something that
shows me the volume in the panel (the old notificaiton icon that
worked in 16.04).

HTH.
.