XFCE Audio Mixer Hotkeys [Solved]

[Mattlxdesign]

After a recent upgrade i have noticed my audio mixer hotkeys are no long work and the Audio Mixer icon has disappeared from my panel. Also when i try to add a new Audio Mixer item to the panel it's greyed out and i can't add it. I thought i must have missed a conf update after the upgrade but

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equo conf update

shows nothing to do.
I can still change the volume by opening the Audio Mixer from the Applications Menu but no panel icon nor hotkeys....
An hour or so of forum and google searches have brought me no luck. Any ideas on what i might have forgotten to do?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Is the Xfce volume control daemon installed and running?

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aspire5536 fitzcarraldo # equo search xfce4-volumed
>>  @@ Searching...
>>      @@ Package: xfce-extra/xfce4-volumed-0.1.13 branch: 5, [sabayonlinux.org]
>>         Available:     version: 0.1.13 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 1
>>         Installed:     version: 0.1.13 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 1
>>         Slot:          0
>>         Homepage:      https://launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed
>>         Description:   Daemon to control volume up/down
>>                        and mute keys
>>         License:       GPL-3
>>  Keywords:  xfce4-volumed
>>  Found:     1 entry
aspire5536 fitzcarraldo # ps -ef | grep xfce4-volumed
fitzcar+  6947     1  0 20:13 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-volumed
root     14422 14017  0 20:38 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --colour=auto xfce4-volumed
aspire5536 fitzcarraldo #

[Mattlxdesign]

Thanks for getting back to me Fitzcarraldo,

Xfce volume control daemon is indeed installed anf a quick check of my task manager confirms it is running.

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[email protected] ~ $ equo search xfce4-volumed
>>  @@ Searching...
>>      @@ Package: xfce-extra/xfce4-volumed-0.1.13 branch: 5, [sabayon-weekly]
>>         Available:     version: 0.1.13 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 1
>>         Installed:     version: 0.1.13 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 1
>>         Slot:          0
>>         Homepage:      https://launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed
>>         Description:   Daemon to control volume up/down
>>                        and mute keys
>>         License:       GPL-3
>>  Keywords:  xfce4-volumed
>>  Found:     1 entry

Another thing that's been playing up since the weekend is playback on xbmc has been a bit choppy. Using my best forum and google searching skills the most likely the most likely culprit is to do with my sound set up, but none of the suggestions i've read have fixed it. What does work is if i log out of an Xfce session and into an xbmc session. Playback returns to normal. With that in mind when i get a chance later today i'll create a new user to check if it's something in my user preferences that's causing me grief.
I'll post my results either way.

[Mattlxdesign]

That was a hard one. Logging in with a new user account had no problems so i began the trial and error process to find the culprit. Cut a long story short it was my panel config file

~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

I copied over it with my test user version but i expect deleting it would have worked just as well and then i wouldn't have had to change its owner and group.
Multi-media hotkeys, Audio Mixer Icon and xbmc all back to normal.