Gnome 2.10 and volume applet

[AgaKhan]

After upgrading to gnome 2.10 I cant find the volume applet (add to panel)

I've tried to re-emerge but no luck..

Sound works fine when playing mp3's..

Suggestions?

[sandrain]

I updated to gnome-2.10 and the volume control applet is gone.
"Right click => Add to panel " gives me no items concerning volume control.

[aLeX_1]

Well here's the answer to your problem...

just type emerge gamix and everything will work just fine

[sandrain]

aLeX_1, thanks for your reply.

I emerged gamix, as you suggested, however I still cannot add a volume-contol-applet to my gnome-panel.
Right click on the panel still doesn't show anything about volume-control.

I need a volume contol applet stuck on gnome-panel, that disappeared after updating gnome, not a GUI-mixer.

thanks.

[parsim]

Odd, I still have a "Volume Control" applet after upgrading to Gnome 2.10...

[sandrain]

Do I have to try re-emerge gnome, then?

Do you know the name of the pakage that contains volume control applet?

[aLeX_1]

Well, because i had the same problem i typed "emerge -s mix" and then emrerged everything that had to do with alsa and gnome... I don't know, but i think you should try it..
I hope this one will work..

[parsim]

Do you know the name of the pakage that contains volume control applet?

I don't, sorry. But I do know that a new Volume Control applet is part of Gnome 2.10, because I saw it listed on their "What's New" page.

The applet shows up as "Volume Control (Adjust the sound volume)" when I right-click on a panel and select "Add to Panel...". When I right-click on the new panel icon and select "About", it says, "Volume Applet 2.10.0 (A GNOME/Gstreamer-based volume control applet)". Running the applet runs gnome-volume-control. (You should try running this from the command line. If you can, you could at least build your own applet.)

[sandrain]

Solved:
Did emerging gstreamer and gst-plugins.
Finally, emerged gnome-applets again(USE flag "+gstreamer" was marked).

And "right click on the panel=>Add to panel" shows me "Volume Control" item.

But it's strange that I used the applet without knowing that I installed gstreamer and gst-plugins
before updating to gnome-2.10. That is, I didn't installed the pakages by hand. And this time, gnome-2.10,
I had to install the pakages manually.

Anyway, thanks everybody.

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

I'm having a similar problem

When I click on"Open Volume Control" get the following message:

Failed to start Volume Control: Failed to execute child process "gnome-volume-control" (No such file or directory)

Running "gnome-volume-control" from a terminal yields the following:

$ gnome-volume-control
bash: gnome-volume-control: command not found

Simply put: gnome-volume-control does not exist on my system.

I have the latest versions of gst-plugins, and gstream emerged. I also have emerged gnome-applets with "gstreamer" in my gnome-applets package use flags.

I don't have much experiance with the portage system, can anyone give me some hints to figure out what package gnome-volume-control is part of and what use flags it depends on?

[parsim]

A handy portage tool is equery, which is part of the app-portage/gentoolkit package.

This lets you do things like this:

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eve max # equery belongs gnome-volume-control
[ Searching for file(s) gnome-volume-control in *... ]
gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.10.0 (/usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-volume-control)
gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.10.0 (/usr/bin/gnome-volume-control)

This tells you that gnome-volume-control is in the gnome-media package.

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

Thanks

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# emerge gentoolkit

[passenger 57]

Hi all

@sandrain

It worked for me

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Did emerging gstreamer and gst-plugins.
Finally, emerged gnome-applets again(USE flag "+gstreamer" was marked).

And "right click on the panel=>Add to panel" shows me "Volume Control" item. 

thx a lot