Logoff and Mixer Issues

[Paul Boniol]

I've been managing a computer in my home remotely for a couple of years. I haven't really had a reason to access it directly again, until recently.

1. When I try to logoff, from either of two accounts, I always have to click logoff 4 times...

Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, xfce4. Any ideas on what could be causing this?

2. A minor nuisance, I am doing video editing on it. Seems to default to 100% volume at login, which is too loud. I haven't been able to figure out how to easily control the volume. I can do it from the command line via alsamixer, but I haven't been able to find anything online that provides an easier interface. (Everything I find is older, recommended packages are installed, commands give errors or aren't in the packages anymore, etc.) Thoughts?

Paul Boniol

[Csaba Toth]

1. Does the 4th logoff successful? Are you using the Action Buttons (on the panel) or another way?

I've had trouble with logoff before, right now with lock screen, but this can be distribution & Xfce version specific.

My best bet: open a question on AskUbuntu with the version details

2. PulseAudio has a panel plugin and that provides me detailed controls,

This is Xfce4 4.14.3, I'm using Devuan Beowulf / Ceres. So I'm systemd-less, but not completely de-Poetterized because I have PulseAudio.

Csaba

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[Paul Boniol]

Thanks! I now have volume control in the panel area.

I try to log off by clicking my name in the panel area, Log Out..., Log Out. It usually takes 4 repetitions to get logged out. This time I think it took 5.

---Paul Boniol.

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[Csaba Toth]

Good to hear. As for the Logout, how much do you wait after the first attempt? It's like flashing and stuff and then coming back?

What do these files say, right after the point you click Logout once (and then wait for a while and the logout fails):

~/.xsession-errors

~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log

dmesg

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[Paul Boniol]

I have waited over a minute, timed.  Yes it normally flashes and then comes back, open programs (e.g. terminal) usually close.

xsession-errors has a lot of messages (probably because LTS is running an older code base and doesn't always update to the latest versions). 

dmesg appears normal.

There are no ~/.xfce4* files.

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[Michael L]

If I may ask, do you guys use audio / video editing applications on your Linux machines?

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[Csaba Toth]

This the point it'd be good to open up a question on AskUbuntu. Upload the logs (after optional anonimization if needed) to pastebin, link them in the question and see what the community says. The Xfce version, Ubuntu variant and version, and possibly some hardware spec can be important. Once you create the question please link it here

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[Paul Boniol]

I use OpenShot Video Editor.  I'm not doing anything too advanced.  Cut, move to join together, repeat, export at the end.  It isn't the easiest, choosing the output format is challenging.  But at least the version I'm on is more stable than previous versions.  Works similarly to something I used on Windows many years ago. (Maybe Nero? Been a long time.)

Paul

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