[xubuntu-users] How to restore the mixer?

[Ryan Gauger]

On 06/12/2012 09:02 PM, Horacio Sanson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:21:28PM -0500, Ryan Gauger wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Horacio Sanson<hsanson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>      On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Ryan Gauger<rtgkid at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      >  On 06/12/2012 09:15 AM, Horacio Sanson wrote:
>>      >
>>      >  All my new xubuntu installations (12.04) had a nice muxer in the
>>      >  panel. This muxer  has a simple volume control and below shows the
>>      >  gmusicbrowser player. When playing music with gmusicbrowser it also
>>      >  shows the cover art and the play/pause/next media controls (see
>>      >  attached screenshot).
>>      >
>>      >  Unfortunately after a few updates (apt-get upgrade) for some reason
>>      >  this muxer applet always dissapears and there is no way, that I can
>>      >  see, to get it back.
>>      >
>>      >  Can anyone teach me how to restore it without reinstalling the whole
>>      system?
>>      >
>>      >  As a bonus can someone tell me also how to restore the mail applet
>>      >  next to the muxer one? (see screenshot). This mail icon allows me to
>>      >  manage my online status in pidgin and access the pidgin application.
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >  regards
>>      >  Horacio
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >  I cannot seem to find what is wrong with the mixer from the image
>>      >  attachment. When it disappears, is there a way to get it back by clicking
>>      on
>>      >  the sound indicator? Thanks!
>>      >
>>
>>      Sorry I did not explain myself very well... That picture is from a
>>      recently installed xubuntu 12.04 and has no problems at all. It show
>>      how I want the panel to be. The problem in on my work laptop that
>>      after an upgrade these two icons (the mixer and the pidgin)
>>      disappeared and I cannot restore them,
>>
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>> Sorry for the confusion. It may be that the upgrade removed them. They may be
>> uninstalled. I would try installing them, and if it installs them, that was the
>> problem.
>>
>>
> Thanks, I finally found the solution. My problem was that I was looking
> on the wrong places. I installed all packages with names like
> notification, mixer, applet, etc. Happens that the package I needed to
> reinstall was "indicator-sound-gtk2" that has nothing to do with mixer,
> etc.
>
> To make it short:
>
>    - Make sure you have the indicator applet added to your panel. I had
>      the notification applet that looks similar but is not the same.
>    - Make sure you have the indicators you want installed
>      (indicator-sound-gtk2 in my case).
>    - Restart the panel (xfce4-panel -r) and see how your indicators
>      appear.
>
> regards,
> Horacio
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I'm glad you found out what was wrong. I did not know the solution 
either, so thanks for posting it! This makes sense, because XFCE 
currently uses GTK 2, unlike Unity/GNOME, which both use GTK 3 (a few 
other desktops use GTK 3). Thanks!