[xubuntu-users] How to restore the mixer?

[Horacio Sanson]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:21:28PM -0500, Ryan Gauger wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Horacio Sanson <hsanson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > On 06/12/2012 09:15 AM, Horacio Sanson wrote:
>     >
>     > All my new xubuntu installations (12.04) had a nice muxer in the
>     > panel. This muxer  has a simple volume control and below shows the
>     > gmusicbrowser player. When playing music with gmusicbrowser it also
>     > shows the cover art and the play/pause/next media controls (see
>     > attached screenshot).
>     >
>     > Unfortunately after a few updates (apt-get upgrade) for some reason
>     > this muxer applet always dissapears and there is no way, that I can
>     > see, to get it back.
>     >
>     > Can anyone teach me how to restore it without reinstalling the whole
>     system?
>     >
>     > As a bonus can someone tell me also how to restore the mail applet
>     > next to the muxer one? (see screenshot). This mail icon allows me to
>     > manage my online status in pidgin and access the pidgin application.
>     >
>     >
>     > regards
>     > Horacio
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > I cannot seem to find what is wrong with the mixer from the image
>     > attachment. When it disappears, is there a way to get it back by clicking
>     on
>     > the sound indicator? Thanks!
>     >
> 
>     Sorry I did not explain myself very well... That picture is from a
>     recently installed xubuntu 12.04 and has no problems at all. It show
>     how I want the panel to be. The problem in on my work laptop that
>     after an upgrade these two icons (the mixer and the pidgin)
>     disappeared and I cannot restore them,
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> Sorry for the confusion. It may be that the upgrade removed them. They may be
> uninstalled. I would try installing them, and if it installs them, that was the
> problem.
> 
>
Thanks, I finally found the solution. My problem was that I was looking
on the wrong places. I installed all packages with names like
notification, mixer, applet, etc. Happens that the package I needed to
reinstall was "indicator-sound-gtk2" that has nothing to do with mixer,
etc.

To make it short:

  - Make sure you have the indicator applet added to your panel. I had
    the notification applet that looks similar but is not the same.
  - Make sure you have the indicators you want installed
    (indicator-sound-gtk2 in my case).
  - Restart the panel (xfce4-panel -r) and see how your indicators
    appear.

regards,
Horacio
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regards,
Horacio Sanson