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noahprince8

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Registered: 2014-02-10

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XFCE Sound Applet/Widget on menu bar randomly stops working

Randomly, the xfce sound widget on the menu bar just freezes, I can no longer change volume by scrolling on it, or by clicking and interacting with it. The buttons still respond when I click them (the volume bar moves up and down), but they aren't attached to anything. The actual sound output doesn't change.

I think it may have to do with spotify, as spotify is always running when this happens.

The only way to fix it seems to be a full reboot.

Anyone know what's going on? I'm running xubuntu 13.10.

ToZ

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Re: XFCE Sound Applet/Widget on menu bar randomly stops working

Are you running the native linux spotify client, or through wine?

I believe that Xubuntu uses an indicator-sound applet to manage sound. Xfce has its own, xfce4-mixer. Which one are you using (probably the default one)? Have you tried the xfce4-mixer? Does the problem persist?

Also, have a look in your ~/.xsession-errors log file when this happens to see if anything interesting is being displayed that help might diagnose the problem.

You can also try restarting pulseaudio when this happens:

pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio --start

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noahprince8

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Registered: 2014-02-10

Posts: 2

Re: XFCE Sound Applet/Widget on menu bar randomly stops working

I'm running the native linux spotify client and using the default xubuntu indicator-sound applet. I'll check out xfce4-mixer. Thanks!

michaelsf

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Registered: 2014-01-16

Posts: 14

Re: XFCE Sound Applet/Widget on menu bar randomly stops working

Did the sound widget in the menu bar work probably when You did install xubuntu 13.10? Or did You fix it? Did You try this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … comments/5

? Or?

Good Luck!

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