Nick Rout schreef: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:59:53 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Oh, and whatever route you choose, you probably want to remove the >> mixer from your panel, then re-add it to prevent other panel >> weirdnesses that seem to occur when you have to do this (which you >> always do, because the gnome-mixer-applet is apparently so stupid >> that it can't detect the environment properly; I've never had it >> work out-of-the-box. Ever. And I've been using GNOME for quite a >> while). > > > Thank you Holly, this looks very thorough, and I'll look into it > again tonight at home. > > I am a recent gnome convert, quite enjoying a change from kde and > xfce. > > One thing, how do I remove the mixer from the panel when it doesn't > show up on the panel (due to terminating with my original error > message as the panel is starting).
OK, that's a bit weird; in my experience it usually complains that it can't find any devices (or can't use them, or whatever), but the little (useless) speaker does appear on the panel. In your case, you have a few options. One is if the error message asks you if you want to remove the applet from your configuration, say yes. Done. You could also just destroy the entire panel, then create a new one, and that would also solve the problem. The most complex, but probably most complete solution would be to go into gconf-editor and remove it there; I see the mixer in apps=> panel=> default_setup and apps=> panel=> general => applet_id_list. You may also find it in apps=> panel=>applets. Unfortunately, I can't say which of the default options would be the correct one to remove (unless it was in apps=> panel=>applets, which are self-added, generally), as I've never had the mixer totally not appearing, just being broken, so I was always able to right-click and remove it. You might also try the failsafe session (see my previous post on gnome-panel earlier today) to see if there's a zombie process that prevents the applet from appearing. Afaik, that's the usual reason that something like this would happen (the restart instance of this or any program is not appearing because a zombie process is still active from the last instance, so the program/applet/whatever thinks it's still running thus does not start a new instance). HTH, Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
