[SOLVED] Volume control knob in Xfce

[agmg]

Hello to everyone!

I'm a happy PCLinuxOS user for about a week now! I've been on another distro before (I love Xfce) but I wanted a distro that I don't have to reinstall every six months. So I decided to give PCLOS a try and I'm very glad I did.

I only have one small frustration: my Toshiba Satellite L505 laptop (on which I installed PCLOS) has some multimedia buttons and a volume control knob that used to work fine in another distro but not in PCLOS. I managed to get the keys working by changing keyboard layout to match Toshiba Satellite S3000. But the volume control knob still isn't working. I did a little research and found out that in another distro there is an app called "xfce4-volumed" (volume management daemon) that controls the multimedia/volume buttons. This package is not in PCLOS repos. I thought I could try to compile it from source but it needs glib-2.0 which also is not in the repos.

Is there a chance that I could install xfce4-volumed in PCLOS or make the volume control knob work another way? I can live without it off course but it is a very useful little knob

Thanks in advance for your help!

[agmg]

After a little more search, I found the solution here:

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5563

I followed the instructions on the last post and it worked perfectly. Just posting it in case someone else has the same problem.

[Rudge]

After a little more search, I found the solution here:

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5563

I followed the instructions on the last post and it worked perfectly. Just posting it in case someone else has the same problem.

That's great news!

Pluse, you get bonus points for doing some research on your own. 

Now modify your original post's topic to include "Solved" or "Resolved" or something to that effect and you will be golden. 

Welcome.  See you in the sandbox. 

[OMSkates]

+1 thanks for this!

[agmg]

Glad my topic was helpful 

[Rudge]

Glad my topic was helpful 

It should be,, anyone that searches for "volume control" will now run across this thread.

Thanks.