Hi,
I am volunteering to help a low-income shelter in San Francisco. I have donated Lubuntu computers, but the volume control is not appearing on one of the machines. I followed the instructions on line by doing this:
- Right click on the panel - choose Add/Remove Panel Items - The Panel Window appears:
You will note that Volume Control already is listed on the list of "Currently loaded plugins", but the volume control does not appear on the panel. Here is a shot of my panel:
I have tried clicking on the "add" button on the right of the Panel Preferences window above, but doing so only puts another instance of "Volume Control" under the list of "Currently loaded plugins" but the icon does not appear in the panel.
Thanks in advance for trying to help!
Yeah, when I at first read that "volume control", I thought volume as in Logical Volume Manager (LVM), and was thinkin' wow, how cool that they give you an LVM control right there ... at least if it worked. Yeah, ... I'm a nerd. 8-O
Of course *after* that, I then think that's *probably* not what's being referred to ... and it's sound/audio volume control.
So ... might be some hints in /var/log and/or within the user's HOME directory. So, may be useful to create a time reference mark file, attempt the change again, and then see what bits where newly created/modified. E.g.: # $tmpfile=`mktemp` [attempt volume panel fix again] # find /var/log ~user -type f -newer $tmpfile -print | sort And have a look over the files that show up - particularly any that may any type of log or error file.
From: "Christian Einfeldt" einfeldt@gmail.com Subject: [BALUG-Talk] LXDE volume control missing from panel Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 20:02:36 -0700
donated Lubuntu computers, but the volume control is not appearing on one of the machines. I followed the instructions on line by doing this:
You will note that Volume Control already is listed on the list of "Currently loaded plugins", but the volume control does not appear on the
Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt@gmail.com):
I am volunteering to help a low-income shelter in San Francisco. I have donated Lubuntu computers, but the volume control is not appearing on one of the machines. I followed the instructions on line by doing this:
- Right click on the panel
- choose Add/Remove Panel Items
- The Panel Window appears:
You will note that Volume Control already is listed on the list of "Currently loaded plugins", but the volume control does not appear on the panel. Here is a shot of my panel:
FYI, if you intended to include a screenshot, none appeared. In any event, it is regarded as bad netiquette to blast out attachments to large numbers of people on public mailing lists. It's deemed more polite to put (e.g.) your image on any of countless free image-hosting mailing list and post the URL instead of file-attaching it out to an entire mailing list's membership. (That way, only people wanting your attachment will be spending downloading time fetching a copy.)
Best guess: You need to do a bit of work with pavucontrol so that LXDE thinks there's a valid sound profile of type 'Analog Stereo Output'. See this page:
http://www.technopic.net/2016/05/no-audio-in-lubuntu-lubuntu-audio.html