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wrh1728

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Registered: 2020-12-15

Posts: 47

Problem with Pulse Audio plugin and the keyboard

Running XFCE 4.16 under Slackware 15.0.

In my top panel I have the Pulse Audio plugin which up till now was working as expected, in that I could click on it and then increase/decrease the sound volume, mute it, etc. At the same time, my keyboard has buttons to carry out those actions, and they worked too.

Today, for some reason, the plugin stopped working: clicking on it would do nothing at all. Fortunately, the keyboard buttons described above still worked. Nevertheless, I decided to remove the Pulse Audio plugin from my top panel, and then added it again. After this, this plugin works again. However, and most irritatingly, the buttons in my keyboard to control sound have stopped working.

Any ideas as to why this happened in the first place, and how to diagnose and fix it? I will restart my session and/or system only as a last resort; I would really like to understand how the chain of events described can happen in the first place.

eriefisher

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Re: Problem with Pulse Audio plugin and the keyboard

Are you using the actual panel plug in or pasystray?  The panel plugin has a check box for using the keyboard specifically. With both you can just mouse over and scroll to increase/lower volume.

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wrh1728

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Registered: 2020-12-15

Posts: 47

Re: Problem with Pulse Audio plugin and the keyboard

Are you using the actual panel plug in or pasystray?  The panel plugin has a check box for using the keyboard specifically. With both you can just mouse over and scroll to increase/lower volume.

Thanks; what you pointed out enabled me to solve the problem. When I right-click on the icon for the plugin and select Properties I indeed see a checkbox under Behaviour to enable keyboard shortcuts for volume control. It was ticked all right, but after unticking and ticking it the volume control keyboard shortcuts work again.

I had to look up pasystray: never heard of that before. Obviously, I am not using it here.

This discussion can be closed as SOLVED.