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How can I change the volume icon in Lubuntu 11.10?

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 7448 / 1 Year ago, thu, may 11, 2023, 12:20:42

I've got a clean install of Lubuntu 11.10, with pulseaudio and pulseaudio-dbg installed. The thing that bothers me is the volume icon. I've got a VOL+ and VOL- button on my keyboard that both work, but the volume icon won't show me the actual volume without hovering over it. And unlike changing the screen brightness, I won't get a popup showing the volume when changing it.

Is there any way to change the volume icon in Lubuntu 11.10, or at least make it show the actual volume?

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answered 1 Year ago ippalogu · Accepted Answer

volwheel

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As you can see the vertical bar shows the volume level

to install

Download the 0.2.8 tar file from here and extract it.

Using lxterminal:

sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

cd ~/Downloads/volwheel-0.2.8/lib

sudo mv * /usr/lib/perl/5.12

cd ..

sudo ./install.pl

To start:

Either add volwheel in your startup applications or run

nohup volwheel &

in a lxterminal

EDIT:

the following maybe required:

gksudo pcmanfm /usr/local/share/

Rightclick volwheel, then click on the tab on the right. Change all the dropdown menus to 'Read and Write'.

mv ~/Downloads/volwheel-0.2.8/icons /usr/local/share/volwheel/icons

Restart and the volume application will be there!

If you want the bar to show the master volume (which is probably the case), rightclick the icon, click 'Settings' and change 'Default channel' to 'Master' (without the quotes).

To start volwheel from login

gksudo leafpad /etc/xdg/autostart/VolWheel.desktop

Copy and paste this in Leafpad:

[Desktop Entry] 

Name=VolWheel 

GenericName=VolWheel 

Comment=Starts VolWheel 

Exec=volwheel 

Terminal=false 

Type=Application 

Icon=/usr/local/share/volwheel/volwheel.svg 

Categories=Volume 

StartupNotify=false 

NotShowIn=LXDE;

Save the file.