XFCE : Mixer applet crashes when scrolling

[Kevin Denis]

Hello

In two slack14 install (32bit and 64) bits, I installed the XFCE desktop.
I installed the Mixer applet.

When I mouse scroll on it, it crashes. In 13.37, it used to raise volume
down and up.

How to make the mixer applet works again?

Thanks
--
Kevin

[Aragorn]

On Monday 20 May 2013 22:45, Kevin Denis conveyed the following to
alt.os.linux.slackware...

Well, you could wait for the arrival of updated packages with a fix, or
you could check whether anyone has reported this bug yet, and if not,
file a bug report yourself. This is how bugs get fixed in the FLOSS
community. As a user of Free Software, you are part of the community,
and instead of talking to marketing drones, you contact the developers.

Don't get me wrong, but your question is actually unintelligible. You
are asking how to make something behave the way it should because it
crashes when you are using it as it was intended to be used. In other
words, that is clearly not intended behavior, and thus it is a bug, and
not something which can be fixed with any advice you get on Usenet.

Bugs should be reported, and if it is beyond the Slack developers'
abilities to fix - i.e. if it is an upstream bug - then the bug should
be reported upstream, to the developers of the XFCE Mixer applet.

As an aside, reporting a bug to upstream if said bug cannot be fixed by
the distribution packagers/developers should be the responsibility /of/
the distribution packagers/developers, but it is my unfortunate
experience that sometimes the distribution packagers/developers simply
choose to shrug it off [*] and simply tell the bug-reporting user to
contact upstream him-/herself. (I am not talking of Slackware in this
regard, but this sort of thing does happen.)


[*] Kind of like this...:

Patient : "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
Doctor : "Then don't do that."

--
= Aragorn =
GNU/Linux user #223157 - http://www.linuxcounter.net

[Kevin Denis]

Le 20-05-2013, Aragorn <thor...@telenet.be.invalid> a �crit�:

>> In two slack14 install (32bit and 64) bits, I installed the XFCE
>> desktop. I installed the Mixer applet.
>>
>> When I mouse scroll on it, it crashes. In 13.37, it used to raise
>> volume down and up.
>>
>> How to make the mixer applet works again?
>
> Well, you could wait for the arrival of updated packages with a fix, or
> you could check whether anyone has reported this bug yet, and if not,
> file a bug report yourself. This is how bugs get fixed in the FLOSS
> community. As a user of Free Software, you are part of the community,
> and instead of talking to marketing drones, you contact the developers.
>
> Don't get me wrong, but your question is actually unintelligible. You
> are asking how to make something behave the way it should because it
> crashes when you are using it as it was intended to be used. In other
> words, that is clearly not intended behavior, and thus it is a bug, and
> not something which can be fixed with any advice you get on Usenet.
>
> Bugs should be reported, and if it is beyond the Slack developers'
> abilities to fix - i.e. if it is an upstream bug - then the bug should
> be reported upstream, to the developers of the XFCE Mixer applet.
>

I agree with that, but usually, developpers ask first if it's a distro
problem.
So, I tried usenet. Somebody could have said: "hey, tweak this and do
that and it works".

> As an aside, reporting a bug to upstream if said bug cannot be fixed by
> the distribution packagers/developers should be the responsibility /of/
> the distribution packagers/developers, but it is my unfortunate
> experience that sometimes the distribution packagers/developers simply
> choose to shrug it off [*] and simply tell the bug-reporting user to
> contact upstream him-/herself. (I am not talking of Slackware in this
> regard, but this sort of thing does happen.)
>

Ok.

By the way, I was unlucky yesterday because I found that today:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7630
I'll try it.
--
Kevin

[Stephen Morgan]

I had that problem. Now I haven't. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how I
fixed it. Just messing in the preferences, I think.

[rkfb]

Right-click the applet, select 'Properties'

Open the dropdown list under 'Sound Card' and select your sound card from
the list (even if it is already selected)

Close the dialog.

Try scrolling the volume, it should now work fine.

regards,
--
Robert

[Kevin Denis]

Le 21-05-2013, rkfb <rk...@openbox.slacknet> a �crit�:

>> In two slack14 install (32bit and 64) bits, I installed the XFCE desktop.
>> I installed the Mixer applet.
>>
>> When I mouse scroll on it, it crashes. In 13.37, it used to raise volume
>> down and up.
>>
>> How to make the mixer applet works again?
>
> Right-click the applet, select 'Properties'
>
> Open the dropdown list under 'Sound Card' and select your sound card from
> the list (even if it is already selected)
>
> Close the dialog.
>
> Try scrolling the volume, it should now work fine.
>

It works. Thanks.
--
Kevin