Why does sound-setting indicator behave...?

[tacoz]

The indicator... Sound Settings on Mint XFCE behaves-n-looks different to the one in Xubuntu
The volume slider is similiar but when one selects Settings, the Mixer dialog pops up and various slider controls are presented
In Xubuntu, one had the option--amongst many others--of moving the slider beyound 100%
The sound in Mint is a noticably softer than I used to experience in Xubuntu...
Is there a way to tweak this?

[aac74]

if you install the packages
gnome-control-center
and
gnome-system-tools

you can get the more advanced 'gnome control centre' sound settings.
Also if you click 'all settings' in 'sound settings' you can set the system time and manage users and groups.
Plus printers, firewall and other things that aren't in the xfce settings panel.

[tacoz]

if you install the packages...

Thanks, but I already tried that and there isn't (at least as I can find) anything that addresses the volume stuff...

[aac74]

Do your sound settings not look like this ? Do you still get low volume over 100% ? Have you selected the correct sound output if you have more than one ?

I have found that most linux sound problems are easily fixed (as are wifi problems) via a cheap linux compatible USB soundcard:

e.g. a card like this has fixed all my vlc crackle and skype problems I was having on my desktop machine -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-External- ... 483b065ebb

SO easy to set up. Just plug and play and select the USB card in sound settings !

[slinkeey]

I did the very same thing that you wanted to do.

Xubuntu 12.04 uses pavucontrol by default.
mint xfce 14 uses xfce4-mixer by default.

So here is what I did:

I removed xfce4-mixer.
I installed pavucontrol.

Now here is where the fun begins. The indicator-sound applet does not open pavucontrol when you press [Sound Settings].

I created a symlink so that when it tries to open xfce4-mixer, pavucontrol opens instead.

Code: Select all

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/pavucontrol /usr/bin/xfce4-mixer

If you are curios, I wanted pavucontrol because I use an older program than benefits from pavucontrol. I just switched from xubuntu to mint-xfce.
Details of what I like pavucontrol for: http://slinkeey.comuv.com/cms/TravelerInLinuxWine

Let me know if this works or if you need help.

[DanJ]

So here is what I did:

I removed xfce4-mixer.
I installed pavucontrol.

Now here is where the fun begins. The indicator-sound applet does not open pavucontrol when you press [Sound Settings].

I created a symlink so that when it tries to open xfce4-mixer, pavucontrol opens instead.

Code: Select all

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/pavucontrol /usr/bin/xfce4-mixer

I'd been scratching my head over this for some time
Thank you very much slinkeey for your solution

[slinkeey]

The interesting thing is.. On my other machine, I cannot remove xfce4-mixer.. It wants to take out mint-meta-xfce. I let it remove it though since meta packages are just a package with a list of dependencies.

[DanJ]

Yes, it removes mint-meta-xfce for me too, but this causes no problems. I much prefer pavucontrol - thank you again