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Hello all.
I have a little issue. I have custom keys for setting volume.
pactl set-sink-volume 0 -10% - volume down
pactl set-sink-volume 0 +10% - volume up
I have pulseaudio, pulseaudio-alsa, pavucontrol, xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin and xfce4-notifyd installed.
There is no notification when changing the volume. Note that in pulseaudio plugin, I have enabled "Show notifications when volume change".
Any idea how can I make the volume notification to show up?
Thank you
Last edited by kepler186 (2017-05-19 06:58:09)
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Remove your custom keys and let the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin get and handle the volume change request I guess?
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Hello, well i don't have volume keys on keyboard...i need to set up custom keys. (Note that in Xubuntu it works)
Last edited by kepler186 (2017-05-19 07:43:08)
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Is xubuntu using (just) the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin? There's also xfce4-volumed-pulse which looks like that is what's supposed to be able to show volume changes just from triggering a volume change, while the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin is supposed to show something usable in the panel.
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Yes, the idea is that it used to work in Arch, but somehow after some updates it stopped working... That's why I asked. Usually the volume notification would show up when changing the volume using keys.
Might be an issue with the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin?
Last edited by kepler186 (2017-05-19 10:12:29)
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Just replying because I somehow stumbled about what I believe is your reddit post.
Anyway, there is not solution yet, AFAIK.
As Scimmia writes here:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52686
Bottom line is that xfce4-mixer is gone. Blame XFCE upstream for still using libraries that Gstreamer upstream hasn't supported in nearly 5 years.
Of all "solutions" I have read online (whether in these forums or on another platform, none worked. At least I see the bar when I put the mouse cursor over the speaker icon and scroll up/down on the mouse wheel.
Oh, and also, I have the same packages as you installed, kepler.
Last edited by jones (2017-06-06 09:25:24)
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Well, I solved it for me.
On a whim, I deleted the keyboard shortcuts (like the ones in the OP, e.g. pactl set-sink-volume 0 -2% - volume down) in the keyboard settings, then logged out and log back in again.
And the notifications work! :-) :-)
Basically like V1del said:
Remove your custom keys and let the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin get and handle the volume change request I guess?
But now I just don't know the amount of change. Hm. Counted the iterations and got to 17 when the bar was full. So it's roughly 5.8% I guess.
Last edited by jones (2017-07-05 09:07:20)
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Downgrading to version 0.2.4.5 fixed the issue. (https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ … io-plugin/)
Last edited by kepler186 (2017-07-07 11:20:29)
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