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Papa Echo

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Problems with alsamixer, Thunar, fonts and Taskmanager in a new Arch

Yesterday I have set up an Arch Linux (64bit) with xfce4 in a virtual machine (VirtualBox). I have an older installation of Arch (32bit), also running in a VM, which is working well. But it was time to switch to 64bits.
My problems with the new installation are:
1. I don’t get a sound, although I installed alsamixer. The graphical frontend is missing, also. I can start alsamixer in a terminal, but with Master and PCM at full values I don’t hear any sound.
2. In Thunar 1.6.12 under devices I get 7 times my mounted external devices. How can I remove the 6 redundant entries?
3. The fonts are a little bit fatter than in my old Arch, although I use the same settings. Why?
4. When starting the Taskmanager in my 32bit Arch I get a symbol in the right corner of my menu bar. When I hover with the mouse over this symbol I get the number of processes, CPU %, RAM % and SWAP %. This is missing in my 64bit Arch. How do I get this in my new Arch?

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drcouzelis

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Re: Problems with alsamixer, Thunar, fonts and Taskmanager in a new Arch

Are the channels in alsamixer muted?

Papa Echo

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Re: Problems with alsamixer, Thunar, fonts and Taskmanager in a new Arch

When I start alsamixer in the terminal it has MM under the bar. So I pressed m and it shows 00. I did this for Master and PCM. still no sound.

WorMzy

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Re: Problems with alsamixer, Thunar, fonts and Taskmanager in a new Arch

Please edit your topic title to actually describe your problem.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Mod note: moving to NC.

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Slithery

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Re: Problems with alsamixer, Thunar, fonts and Taskmanager in a new Arch

00 means that it is now unmuted, you just need to increase the volume using the arrow keys.

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Papa Echo

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Re: Problems with alsamixer, Thunar, fonts and Taskmanager in a new Arch

00 means that it is now unmuted, you just need to increase the volume using the arrow keys.

That's what I have done. In my old Arch it works with Master and PCM on. But I have this graphical window that I don't get in my new 64bit Arch.

WorMzy

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Re: Problems with alsamixer, Thunar, fonts and Taskmanager in a new Arch

Whoops, I didn't realise that this was a omnibus thread or else I could have would have also asked you to create one thread per issue. The link I directed you to does cover this, however, but perhaps you didn't read that far. Please take this opportunity to read through the full Code of Conduct.

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Papa Echo

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Re: Problems with alsamixer, Thunar, fonts and Taskmanager in a new Arch

I have just installed 'pacman -S pulseaudio' and now I have sound.