Sound control is gone, menus weird in 18.04.1

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 22:35, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 5:51 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What desktop were you using before?
> >
> XFCE4 - the standard that comes with Xubuntu.  I'm rather fond of it,
> issues and all.

Oh!

Well, there hasn't been a new version in a little while. Were you on
Xfce 4.10 before? I haven't used that much. I can barely see any
difference between it and the 4.12 I use at work.

> > Sounds like you need to explore Xfce and find your way around, I'm
> > afraid. It's quite different from Unity or GNOME.
> >
> I've been using Xubuntu with XFCE4 since 2012.  I explore a lot, but I
> don't know a lot as well.

I am sorry for my earlier comment. I did not mean to impugn.

> I finally found it - it's the pulseaudio plugin.  With that added to
> my panel, I also have full media key controls back.

Great!

> Any advice on how to fix the apps menu format?  I tried everything I
> could think of to no effect, and my Google searches are full of
> information I don't need - so far.

Can you explain what's wrong with it?

> I never give up.

Well, good!

> Many thanks.

You're very welcome and I apologise for assuming that you were coming
from a different desktop.

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