Muntasim Ul Haque <tranjeeshan <at> inventati.org> writes: > > Hi, > I have had problems with Debian 8 'jessie' Xfce edition. I didn't get > any sound initially. Then after 'some' configuration, I got sound > working. But sound related problems were still there. When I plug-in the > headphone I got no sound. Then I have to re-adjust using 'pavucontrol' > and 'alsamixer'. And the main problem was with Youtube videos. I thought > that was because I don't have Flash player installed and I don't want > to. But then I tried Debian jessie GNOME and everything was working > fine. Even the Youtube video's sound. So what's the deal with Xfce? Why > there was no sound on YouTube? And why I had to configure every time I > switch from and to headphone and speaker? > > With thanks, > Muntasim Ul Haque > >
I had the same problem. I found a solution here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/ 545758/problem-with-sound-volume-with-xfce-on-ubuntu-14-04-1-lts run the following command to turn mute on: pactl set-sink-mute 0 1 run the following command to turn mute off: pactl set-sink-mute 0 0