Lightweight volume control for XFCE?

[John Wendel]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:13 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> 
>>Whats a good lightweight volume control for XFCE?  I'd like something 
>>that complies to that freedesktop standard so it will dock in the system 
>>tray.  Maybe something written in gtk.  I'm using FC3 btw.
> 
> 
> Add the Xfce volume control panel applet:
> 
> Right click on the edge of the Xfce panel and select Add New Item, then
> select Volume Control from the list.
> 
> 
>>On a side note, how do I make XFCE my default desktop?  I edited my 
>>/etc/sysconfig/desktop to have the line
>>DESKTOP="XFCE"
>>but it doesn't work.
> 
> 
> Just run the desktop switching tool:
> 
> /usr/bin/switchdesk
> 
> and select Xfce.
> 
> 
> BTW, to anyone else reading this, Xfce 4.2 is scheduled for final
> release on Jan 16 (unless something unexpected occurs  ;-).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> 

I'm currently using XFCE 4.2RC3 on FC3. It's working perfectly for me. 
I'd like to suggest that everyone interested in XFCE give it a try and 
report any bugs.

Looks like an XFCE volume control/mixer is planned (there's an entry in 
the config menu), but I couldn't find it among the installed apps. For 
volume control, I just run alsamixer if the app I'm using doesn't have 
its own control. gnome-volume-control also works fine under XFCE.

I didn't make XFCE4 my default desktop, since I always boot into 
runlevel 3. I just run "startxfce4" after a regular console login.

Regards,

John