XFCE upgraded to 4.16

[Guido Falsi]

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.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>