xfce sound panel widget

[CU]

I am using pulse audio for sound, but I can not find a panel widget to control it. Right now I just have to open the pulse audio volume control window to do it. I read you need to use the indicator plugin which is for Unity indicators. Why I need Unity indicators for xfce is beyond me, but OK. So, I tried and it doesn't work. It has lots of things besides volume and when I try to hide them nothing happens, so is there a native xfce panel widget to control the volume through pulse audio?

 

[lxskllr]

Doesn't the xfce4-mixer work?

 

[CU]

I thought xfce4-mixer was for alsa not pulse audio?

 

[lxskllr]

Dunno, see this...

Xfce4-mixer and pulseaudio

Open xfce4-settings-editor, navigate to xfce4-mixer. You might want to change the value of active-card. check below sound-cards and you might find a few lines under it and one of them should be similar to PlaybackInternalAudioAnalogStereoPulseAudioMixer. It is pulseaudio recognized by xfce4. So all you need to do is make it default. Copy it and replace values of active-card and sound-card. Reboot or xfce4-mixer restart might be required.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce#Configuring_xfce4-mixer

 

[CU]

The xfce4 mixer does work will pulse audio if you change the sound card like in your link or just right clicking on the panel widget after you add it. It is not really designed for pulse audio though. You cannot open PulseAudio Volume Control and only a Master volume control slider shows up in Audio Mixer when using pulse audio. The other thing is the icon is wrong in my panel when it is suppose to show 2 volume lines. It goes from black to grey (color of panel), which makes it invisible. It turns black again when you increase the volume to show 3 volume lines. It also doesn't make a sound when changing the volume so you don't know how loud or quiet you just set the volume to.