[CentOS] GUI volume control/mixer in C6??

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2013-02-24, Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> wrote:
> sigh.
>
> Frank, what is it that appears in the notification area? the speaker icon?
> I have that.
>
> Liam, that's not the tool I'm asking about.
>
> On c5 (and a prior installation of C6 on different hardware) I could get a
> mixer to appear by double-clicking the speaker icon. this had sliders for
> all the various input and output devices, like MASTER, PCM, CD, etc. now I
> can't get it and don't know what to do to get it. As far as I recall I
> never did anything special on the other systems, it just worked.
>
> Further clues appreciated.
>
> Fred

For a system running pulseaudio, the closest equivalent I can think of
is pavucontrol. But CentOS doesn't ship it. I just use alsamixer.


>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 2013-02-24, Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Just bringing up a Centos-6 (x86_64, FWIW) and I can't find the mixer
>> app...
>> >
>> > on my C5 box(es), double click on the speaker icon in the top panel and I
>> > get a mixer app appears on the screen.
>> >
>> > My new C6 box doesn't do that. I've installed all the PULSEAUDIO RPMS I
>> can
>> > find, but still nothing.
>> >
>> > what am I missing here?
>> >
>> > thanks!
>> >
>> > Fred
>>
>> The speaker icon is provided by the gnome-media package. To get the
>> mixer, right-click on the icon and select 'Sound Preferences'. Or just
>> run the gnome-volume-control command directly.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Liam
>>
>>
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