[kwlug-disc] Pulseaudio question

[Paul Nijjar]

Using xprop on the window that pops up confirms that it is
xfce4-notifyd. (run xprop in one window, volup/voldown when displays
are working, and click on the popup): 

linuxuser at ubuntu:~$ xprop
_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 4294967295
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE, _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER

[... stuff skipped ...]

WM_CLASS(STRING) = "xfce4-notifyd", "Xfce4-notifyd"
WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "xfce4-notifyd"
_NET_WM_ICON_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "xfce4-notifyd"
WM_NAME(STRING) = "xfce4-notifyd"
_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "xfce4-notifyd"


However, on my testing system killing this process did nothing. There
is another daemon (which the internet says is obsolete?) called
xfce4-volumed which appears to be the culprit: 

https://launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed

When I ran the following:

$ pkill xfce4-volumed
$ xfce4-volumed 

the notifications started working for me again. (I was able to
reproduce Khalid's problem  after killing pulseaudio.)

- Paul



On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 05:23:05PM -0400, Ron Singh wrote:
> Mebbe this might help?
> 
> Xfce4-notifyd
> 
> from this google result --
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/xfce-volume-indicator-when-button-is-pressed-4175514142/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron Singh
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 2:31 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sometimes, audio stops working on my laptop.
> > Which is Xubuntu 18.04.
> >
> > The solution is to do:
> > $ pulseaudio -k
> >
> > Sound is back.
> >
> > But what is not back is that popup slider that tells me what the sound
> > level is when I press the volume up/down keys.
> >
> > I imagine it dies when pulseaudio is killed.
> >
> > The thing is, I don't know what this executable's name is, so I can re-run
> > it.
> >
> > Anyone has an idea what this popup is called?
> >
> > --
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