[opensuse-xfce] Get pavucontrol to Xfce panel
Hey guys. So, i installed pulseaudio and all the necessary additional packages. But what i'd like now is to have my mixer using pulseaudio, or more specifically, i'd like my volume indicator to use pavucontrol. Regards, -- Nenad Latinović nenad@latinovic.info -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
* Nenad Latinović <nenad@latinovic.info> [2014-07-03 09:14]:
So, i installed pulseaudio and all the necessary additional packages. But what i'd like now is to have my mixer using pulseaudio, or more specifically, i'd like my volume indicator to use pavucontrol.
Start xfce4-settings-editor, select the channel "xfce4-panel", look for the plugin named "mixer" and change the "command" property to "pavucontrol". When you click on "Run Audio Mixer" it should now start pavucontrol instead of xfce4-mixer. Be warned though that xfce4-mixer and its panel plugin interact rather badly with pulseaudio, xfce4-mixer is built on gstreamer and the gstreamer pulseaudio backend is really buggy crap. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
Hey Guido, thanks for your answer. Someone on the Xfce forums also posted that i could try using pnmixer. What do you think also about that solution? Thanks, Quoting Guido Berhoerster <gber@opensuse.org>:
* Nenad Latinović <nenad@latinovic.info> [2014-07-03 09:14]:
So, i installed pulseaudio and all the necessary additional packages. But what i'd like now is to have my mixer using pulseaudio, or more specifically, i'd like my volume indicator to use pavucontrol.
Start xfce4-settings-editor, select the channel "xfce4-panel", look for the plugin named "mixer" and change the "command" property to "pavucontrol". When you click on "Run Audio Mixer" it should now start pavucontrol instead of xfce4-mixer. Be warned though that xfce4-mixer and its panel plugin interact rather badly with pulseaudio, xfce4-mixer is built on gstreamer and the gstreamer pulseaudio backend is really buggy crap. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
-- Nenad Latinović nenad@latinovic.info -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
* Nenad Latinović <nenad@latinovic.info> [2014-07-03 18:08]:
Hey Guido, thanks for your answer.
Someone on the Xfce forums also posted that i could try using pnmixer. What do you think also about that solution?
Sure, just try it out if it suits your needs, a pnmixer package seems to be available from the X11:lxde repo (it's not in 13.1 or Factory). -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
Dear Guido. The result you posted fits me much better than pnmixer. Thank you for the heads up! + Is there maybe a media player controller plugin of some sort, as in Xubuntu for example? (the forward, back, play buttons when media is playing...)? Quoting Guido Berhoerster <gber@opensuse.org>:
* Nenad Latinović <nenad@latinovic.info> [2014-07-03 09:14]:
So, i installed pulseaudio and all the necessary additional packages. But what i'd like now is to have my mixer using pulseaudio, or more specifically, i'd like my volume indicator to use pavucontrol.
Start xfce4-settings-editor, select the channel "xfce4-panel", look for the plugin named "mixer" and change the "command" property to "pavucontrol". When you click on "Run Audio Mixer" it should now start pavucontrol instead of xfce4-mixer. Be warned though that xfce4-mixer and its panel plugin interact rather badly with pulseaudio, xfce4-mixer is built on gstreamer and the gstreamer pulseaudio backend is really buggy crap. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
-- Nenad Latinović nenad@latinovic.info -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
* Nenad Latinović <nenad@latinovic.info> [2014-07-04 15:23]:
Dear Guido.
The result you posted fits me much better than pnmixer. Thank you for the heads up!
+ Is there maybe a media player controller plugin of some sort, as in Xubuntu for example? (the forward, back, play buttons when media is playing...)?
I'm not aware of a generic MPRIS2 plugin and the Xubuntu thing you're referring to seems to be Ubuntu-specific. But a bunch of media players in openSUSE offer system tray icons with such controls: - Pragha (by default) - Parole (as a plugin which is included in the main package) - VLC (by default) Or you could use mpd (a package is provided by Packman) which can be controlled through xfce4-panel-plugin-mpc and a fully featured frontend called xfmpc. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
Am 04.07.2014 15:23, schrieb Nenad Latinović:
Dear Guido.
The result you posted fits me much better than pnmixer. Thank you for the heads up!
volti could be an alternative: https://code.google.com/p/volti/ Greets Marcus
+ Is there maybe a media player controller plugin of some sort, as in Xubuntu for example? (the forward, back, play buttons when media is playing...)? Quoting Guido Berhoerster <gber@opensuse.org>:
* Nenad Latinović <nenad@latinovic.info> [2014-07-03 09:14]:
So, i installed pulseaudio and all the necessary additional packages. But what i'd like now is to have my mixer using pulseaudio, or more specifically, i'd like my volume indicator to use pavucontrol.
Start xfce4-settings-editor, select the channel "xfce4-panel", look for the plugin named "mixer" and change the "command" property to "pavucontrol". When you click on "Run Audio Mixer" it should now start pavucontrol instead of xfce4-mixer. Be warned though that xfce4-mixer and its panel plugin interact rather badly with pulseaudio, xfce4-mixer is built on gstreamer and the gstreamer pulseaudio backend is really buggy crap. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
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Nenad Latinović