Removed Pulseaudio - Sound icon gone and no volume shortcuts after reinstall pulseaudio.

Asked by Viktor Foderus

Removed Pulseaudio - Sound icon gone and no volume shortcuts after reinstall pulseaudio. I am probably missing some packaged that was removed when i removed pulseudio package.

I removed it while i was troubleshooting my audio settings and now when i reinstalled pulseaudio i cannot change volume from my keyboard and the sound icon in the upper right corner is gone.

Any tip on what packages i need to reinstall or such?

Edit: The same question has been posted here with no answer (not mentioning keyboard shortcuts though):
http://elementaryos.org/answers/volume-icon-on-system-tray-missing-pulseaudio-2

This is not a bug, this is my own fault. Although I have another bug where mic boost settings does not save but resets after each reboot si have have to turn the mic-boost up again each time.

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needhelp007 (iempie3) said :
#1

You can set hotkeys in the tweaks tool.
Did you reinstall pulseaudio in the terminal, if not write this in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install—reinstall plseaudio

sudo apt-get install—reinstall alsa

you can also go to http://www.elementarynow.com/what-is-elementary-3/things-to-do/
You could be missing some codecs mentioned on this site.

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needhelp007 (iempie3) said :
#2

I could be wrong with the terminal codes it could also be:

sudo apt-get install —reinstall plseaudio

sudo apt-get install —reinstall alsa

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Viktor Foderus (viktor-8) said :
#3

I did a:
sudo apg-get remove pulseaudio

Then reboot and:
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

And then i got the problem described above.

I am missing some package but i dont know what, reinstalling pulseaudio does not help.

By the way my volume controls on the keayboard is now working so I have no idea why that didnt work before, although i dont got any audio icon in "system tray".

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needhelp007 (iempie3) said :
#4

Try install :
sudo apt-get install alsa

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needhelp007 (iempie3) said :
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Viktor Foderus (viktor-8) said :
#6

viktor@LiCli01:~$ sudo apt-get install alsa
[sudo] password for viktor:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'alsa-base' instead of 'alsa'
alsa-base is already the newest version.

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needhelp007 (iempie3) said :
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Viktor Foderus (viktor-8) said :
#8

Ok i did:
mv ~/.pulse ~/.pulse_backup

just need to relogin i guess, but im playing dota2 and ive taken a few beers and its friday so ill do it later (;
will report back with result laters!

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Viktor Foderus (viktor-8) said :
#9

Just rebooted, still no sound icon.

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needhelp007 (iempie3) said :
#10

Sorry for my late response .
Try this in the terminal: sudo apt-get install indicator-sound

And reboot

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Viktor Foderus (viktor-8) said :
#11

sudo apt-get install indicator-sound

This solved it for me, thanks!

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needhelp007 (iempie3) said :
#12

finally :)