pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another machine's pulseaudio instance over the network: $ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them. On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier <damokles4-listen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > some time ago xfce sorted out xfce4-mixer in favour of xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. > - agreed removing xfce4-mixer > - Installed xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin - no sound mixing available at all > - Installed optional dependency pavucontrol - no sound mixing available - no > connection to pulseaudio server > - Installed optional dependency pulsaudio - yay! sound mixing up an running. > > I don't understand much about dependency quirks but I wonder about the reason > both dependencies beeing made optional. > xfce4-pulsaudio-plugin is out of any functionality without working pavucontrol > pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server. > > So what is the reason making both dependencies optional? > -- > Friedrich -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3
