Sound control doesn't work in MATE 1.8

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Can’t open “Change sound volume and sound events” since i’ve moved to MATE 1.8.0. (from 1.6) And there’s no sound control in the panel.
How to do that it will work?

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I’m not a MATE user, so can only offer general advice…

  1. A thread is describing a similar issue?

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2014-06/msg00213.html

  1. One bug report I’ve managed to find where ‘mate-volume-control’ is not working as expected, (but the issue is reported to be with the incorrect primary audio device selected).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045742

  1. This may not be an openSUSE-specfic issue, so you should consider seeking support from the MATE forum

http://forums.mate-desktop.org/

http://mate-desktop.org/community/

Good luck! :slight_smile:

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On 19/07/14 18:26, andranique wrote:
>
> Can’t open “Change sound volume and sound events” since i’ve moved to
> MATE 1.8.0. (from 1.6) And there’s no sound control in the panel.
> How to do that it will work?

I installed a clean Mate 1.8 (i.e. no prior Mate 1.6) DE and observed
the same issue - no Mate Volume Control Applet running (Segmentation
fault reported when command ‘mate-volume-control-applet’ is run in
console mode). And as this was hanging the system a bit, I disabled it
in ‘System–>Preferences–>Startup Application (Preferences)–>Volume
Control’.

I have the Pulse Audio Server installed/running and I could get volume
control via laptop controls or via VLC (or other media) player volume
control, and also via launching the following programs (after installing
them):
gmixer - Simple and Lightweight Audio Mixer
pavucontrol - PulseAudio Volume Control

Since none of the above options will provide a neat integrated
notification tray volume button control, I followed the link provided by
Deano Ferrari
(http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2014-06/msg00215.html)
and took the advice given there to install volti (An GTK+ application
for controlling audio volume). This works well for me and provides a
tray icon/button for volume control.

The following info is from Yast Software Management module:
"Volti is an GTK+ application for controlling audio volume from system
tray/notification area.
Features:

  • no pulseaudio, gstreamer, phonon etc. only alsa is needed
  • internal mixer application, but you can choose any mixer app you prefer
  • left click opens volume scale (slider)
  • scroll wheel on tray icon changes volume, increment in percents is
    configurable"

Cheers

PS: Thanks to Deano for providing the pointers (links) to this
reasonable workaround!

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Thank you, I’ll try to do something

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Thank you. I’m using PulseAudio at Cairo-dock panel. But, that’s more convenient for me to use from the top of MATE panel.