Is there another volume control sliding bar for Xfce?

Question

I'm on Xubuntu 13.10 64 bit. I've recently had this issue. As a result the sliding bar that is used to control the volume is gone. I can live without it, I can control the volume from my keyboard but I'd like to know if I can install an alternative to the default sliding bar.

I have Xfce4 version 4.10. My volume indicator looks like this, I don't know what it's called, but it's the default one

Answer 1

On Xubuntu 16.04 the xfce4-mixer plugin is no longer available.

Try

sudo apt install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin

(which is not in the goodies package)

Answer 2

It looks like you're not using the default Xfce volume slider (perhaps in Xubuntu it is default, but not in Xfce). I suspect that you're using the indicator plugin, which I don't like nor use. I would suggest that you try adding Audio Mixer plugin to the panel.

To have it available you need to:

sudo apt-get install xfce4-mixer

Answer 3

I used to replace GTK3 indicator (buggy) with the GTK2 one :

• Open with superuser rights the file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/indicator-sound.service (Mousepad is the default file-editor in Xubuntu, replace it with Gedit or Leafpad if necessary) :

  gksu mousepad /usr/share/dbus-1/services/indicator-sound.service
  

• Comment the existing line (comment = add a # at the beginning of the line) and add this line under (This will load GTK2 indicator if XFCE is running, and GTK3 one for Gnome/Unity/Others) :

  Exec=/bin/sh -c 'if [ -n "$(ps -U $USER | grep xfce4-panel)" ]; then /usr/lib/indicator-sound-gtk2/indicator-sound-service;else /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service;fi'
  

• Your file should look like this in the end :

  [D-BUS Service]
  Name=com.canonical.indicator.sound
  #Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service
  Exec=/bin/sh -c 'if [ -n "$(ps -U $USER | grep xfce4-panel)" ]; then /usr/lib/indicator-sound-gtk2/indicator-sound-service;else /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service;fi'
  

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You can also try new indicators by installing xfce4-goodies :

sudo apt-get install xfce4-goodies

Another indicator is, as suggested by landroni, xfce4-mixer :

sudo apt-get install xfce4-mixer