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chewyboy0

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Registered: 2014-07-27

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

Hi everyone,  My name is Jason and I am 12 years of age (hopefully that won't be a problem) and I have installed arch linux on my old Dell Inspiron 8600.

I have installed

1. LXDE.

2. LXDM.

3. Yaourt.

4. Nvdia Drivers.

5. Wi-Fi Drivers

6. Firefox

7. Network Manager and a DCHP client

8. Flash Player

  Installing all this and the programs took 2 days because I ran into many problems and even (probroally didn't have to but I did) installed Arch Linux a second time.
Now, onto the problem
I know how pulseaudio works so I unmuted the sound with amixer then I turned the sound up with alsamixer. All I need now is a panel applet for LXDE to change the volume up for pulseaudio.

Thanks-
    Jason

Last edited by chewyboy0 (2014-08-05 00:40:59)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

See the Wiki page for PulseAudio: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

And under installation note pasystray-git.  That is an AUR package so you will also want to read up about https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg and probably want to be familiar with an AUR helper as well.  I use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/ as an AUR helper and think the world would be a better place if everyone did.

chewyboy0

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Registered: 2014-07-27

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

I already know how to makepkg and download things from the aur with wget, but thanks for the info anyways. Also the application yaourt I installed searches the AUR for packages and shows a list of options to pick from and it automagicially makes the package for you and installs it. (yaourt is FROM the aur so I had to makepkg with that) EDIT: Oh yeah and the NVdia drivers are from the AUR as well.

Last edited by chewyboy0 (2014-07-27 17:48:40)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

What nvidia drivers?
Just remember to check if makepkg works fine, when yaourt doesn't want to build a certain package or throws an error of some sort.

chewyboy0

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Registered: 2014-07-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

I don't think this audiotray is suitable because it doesn't have volume controls it looks like.

If anyone has one that looks like the ubuntu one that would be appriciated

chewyboy0

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Registered: 2014-07-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

karol on the wiki the NVdia page had my driver and it said it was on the aur so I got the one it said.

chewyboy0

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Registered: 2014-07-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

the nvidia-173xx drrivers basicially

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

Please use the edit function instead of posting multiple times.

chewyboy0

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Registered: 2014-07-27

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

Well, a problem leads to another problem... after installing this tray icon I can't remove it. Niether with pacman or yaourt

=/

torors

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Registered: 2012-09-28

Posts: 106

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

To compleetly remove a package:

pacman -Rns pkg_name

Perhaps you must log out / reebot.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

Post the exact command you run and the exact error you got.

Are you right-clicking on it? Did you restart?
We need more info.

chewyboy0

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Registered: 2014-07-27

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

Oh I had to use yaourt to remove it and there was a -gtk after the application I think. Also I have found a list of sound mixer panel applets and I have found one I like so thanks for the help guys Hopefully going to find the mark as solved button

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio control for LXDE and Hello everyone!

We don't need no stinkin' button to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309 :-)

BTW, you can / should remove packages with pacman. To check the log, see /var/log/pacman.log.

Last edited by karol (2014-07-27 23:13:03)