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http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904043
Guido Berhörster
"if you install"
Sure, I clicked "install", but the selection is not mine, this is the
The default installation when you select the Xfce desktop pattern does not include pulseaudio.
default setup. Don't you think default setup should be working properly?
Yes, and in fact an Xfce default installation does work "properly".
If pavucontrol, as you wrote, works, then include it it default XFCE setup instead of gmixer.
gmixer is not part of the default Xfce installation, xfce4-mixer and its panel applet are. pavucontrol only works with pulseaudio and does not provide a panel plugin or system tray applet, two good reasons not to make it the default. The situation is somewhat unfortunate that the Xfce project does not provide a mixer that work with both plain Alsa and pulseaudio, but that's the way it is currently. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.