Description of problem: One of the recent xfce4 updates seems to have replaced the xfce4-mixer plugin on my system with xfce-pulseaudio-plugin. So I've added this new plugin to my XFCE panel, but with this plugin I can now not access the full audio mixer dialog anymore. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-4.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on the speaker icon (i.e. the xfce-pulseaudio-plugin) in the panel 2. Select the "Audio mixer..:" menu entry Actual results: An error dialog shows up, saying: Failed to execute command "pavucontrol". Failed to execute child process "pavucontrol" (No such file or directory) Expected results: Audio mixer dialog shows up instead of the error message. Additional info: I didn't see any RPMs in EPEL which provide a "pavucontrol" binary, "yum whatprovides pavucontrol" says "No matches found" ... is there a way to get this binary with EPEL?
Yes. That's because, as far as I know, there is no pavucontrol in EL-7 ... :( I have been meaning to file a bug report requesting an EPEL-7 package for pavucontrol but have not had the chance yet .. If you are willing, please file one requesting el-7 branch. If not, I will do it (possibly) next week.
The problem is simply that the pavucontrol package from epel provides pavucontrol-qt, not pavucontrol. Linking pavucontrol-qt to pavucontrol in /usr/bin bypasses the problem as a temporary resolution.
Actually, this should probably be closed now that we are at RHEL 7.3 root @ hobbiton ~# rpm -qi pavucontrol Name : pavucontrol Version : 3.0 Release : 5.el7 Architecture: x86_64 <snip> Source RPM : pavucontrol-3.0-5.el7.src.rpm Build Date : Mon 23 May 2016 10:58:20 AM EDT Build Host : x86-030.build.eng.bos.redhat.com Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Vendor : Red Hat, Inc. <snip> root @ hobbiton ~# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
I just installed the package, and it works fine, thanks a lot for that!