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Asked: 2012-04-13 22:18:50 +0800 CST

What is the 'Sound Settings' program's name in Ubuntu

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I use Xubuntu. Recently I removed all Ubuntu/Unity related packages in the hope to have a more responsive and less cluttered system.

Before I removed Ubuntu/Unity packages following using this command.

After the removing of the packages the program thats starts when selecting 'Sound Settings...' is a different one than it was before when Unity was installed.

Panel > Sound Indicator > Sound Settings...

As I have a bluetooth speaker I connect to I would like to have the 'old' sound settings program back. The latter enabled me to select the bluetooth speaker as output.

I did install sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center and the sound menu became the old one again. Good but once I've connected my bluetooth speakers via the bluetooth indicator in the panel there is still no speaker to select as output.

What package do I need to install?

sound bluetooth xubuntu indicator-sound

4 Answers

  1. In GNOME audio settings are controlled by the GNOME Control Center

    gnome-control-center sound

    GNOME is not installed by default in Xubuntu. You can access audio settings by installing the package pavucontrol for controlling sound settings without GNOME dependencies:

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  2. Best Answer

    I believe that Sound Settings is a part of gnome-control-center. Whenever I open sound settings and run killall gnome-control-center (This command will kill the process requested), it closes my Sound Settings.

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  3. I don't know what program you were using before, but you can easily find out what what programs are readily available to you to this sort of thing type apropos mixer or apropos mix at the command line. In my case it pops up a list of two:

    • alsamixer
    • amixer

    The first one, alsamixer, is a mixer that works from the console and offers a lot of functionality. Check the man page man alsamixer to figure out the key bindings.

    Another option is to search for 'mixer' in available packages, but that will only work if the mixer has a package of its own, not packaged with other desktop tools: apt-cache search mixer | grep mixer -i --color

    Maybe you are able to find out which mixer you were using by browsing through the /var/log/dpkg.log, grep -i mix /var/log/dpkg.log*

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  4. I had some trouble with opening the settings, i.e, I was unable to fix or update anything and pulseaudio was already running and therefore won't open.

    I solved it by:

    sudo apt install pavucontrol
pavucontrol
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