Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 19:29:09 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier@gmail.com>, freebsd-xfce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFCE upgraded to 4.16 Message-ID: <8496648b-8687-6c3a-99a4-3653bdcaa606@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <20210103191543.3bcb591f@lenovo.errements.net> References: <46a21428-a640-f895-0f3b-f44c09497bf5@madpilot.net> <747ecac6-6d60-6143-1ae1-47801299b59b@netfence.it> <1502a321-02c0-13e9-16b3-6f11da9de3af@madpilot.net> <20210103191543.3bcb591f@lenovo.errements.net>
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On 03/01/21 19:15, Olivier Duchateau wrote: > 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 > Thanks for the news. When it will be available I'll make a port for sure. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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