Le Sun, 3 Jan 2021 19:04:28 +0100, Guido Falsi via freebsd-xfce <freebsd-xfce@freebsd.org> a écrit :
> On 03/01/21 17:41, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > On 1/2/21 5:42 PM, Guido Falsi via freebsd-xfce wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have just committed the update to xfce 4.16 as r559953 [1] > > > > Hello Guido and, first off, thanks for your work. > > > > Just a question (while I'm choosing which packages to build with > > Poudriere)... > > > > I used audio/xfce4-mixer: I see it's gone. > > audio/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin is suggested as a replacement. > > Does this mean I have to run pulseaudio daemon on my laptop just to > > be able to set the volume??? > > If so, is there any other alternative? > > > > With the update to the new XFCE libraries the mixer plugin fails to > compile. it requiress GTK2 support, which was dropped from the panel. > Support for it was also dropped years ago and the fix is not trivial > (major rewrite would be required). > > Upstream replacement is using pulsed. XFCE, like many other desktop > environments, by default uses pulsed for managing audio. Actually a > lot of software uses and prefers pulsed, and I would not be surprised > if pulsed is actually running in the background on your system > without you even noticing. > > Apart from this XFCE does not provide a replacement. > > Although, the ports tree does have some other p0orts which could be > useful, for example I see audio/volumeicon which should put an icon > in your system tray with which to set various audio parameters. > > audio/gtmixer also provides a tray icon. > > There are others which, I think< are worth a try. > Hi, There is new maintainer for xfce4-mixer [1] (see multiple-backends branch), and OpenBSD developer add sndio support too. I don't know, when it will be available. Regards, [1] https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-mixer/-/tree/multiple-backends -- olivier _______________________________________________ freebsd-xfce@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xfce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xfce-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
