<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Richard Brook <<a href="mailto:byronf16@gmail.com">byronf16@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sep 15, 2014 6:49 PM, "Jean-Yves Avenard" <<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi<br>
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>><br>
>> On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Richard Brook <<a href="mailto:byronf16@gmail.com">byronf16@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> ><br>
>>> > Why?? This is an appliance, youaren't supposed ot ever see the desktop.<br>
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>>> MythTv may be an appliance to you, but to me it is an application that I<br>
>>> use to watch LiveTV and record programming. When I am not watching LiveTv or<br>
>>> recordings, I use a web browser to access Internet sites such as YouTube,<br>
>>> Netflix, Hulu Plus, etc., read email, play music, watch DVD's, and other<br>
>>> such things that utilize audio.<br>
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>><br>
>> Then don't use xfce or mythbuntu<br>
>><br>
>> That's what Nick was referring to. If you want a desktop that can also run<br>
>> mythtv, then using xfce is clearly not the best choice.<br>
>><br>
>> You can of course start from mythbuntu default install and add some more.<br>
>><br>
>> But don't complain that mythbuntu doesn't come with some widgets when it<br>
>> clearly wasn't designed to do that.<br>
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> I am not complaining. As I stated before, all I wanted to do was get MythTv<br>
> running under Ubuntu 14.04, like I have in past versions of Ubuntu and<br>
> MythTv. When I ran into trouble installing MythTv, under Ubuntu 14.04, I<br>
> came to this forum and was advised to install Mythbuntu and then configure<br>
> the Desktop the way I wanted. This is the first time I heard that Mythbuntu<br>
> was not designed to have a Desktop that functions like the one in Ubuntu.<br>
> There is even a setting, in the Applications menu, that let me install<br>
> Ubuntu Desktop.<br>
><br>
> I just assumed that the Mythbuntu 14.04 iso file I downloaded and installed<br>
> was just Ubuntu with MythTv added.<br>
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> I never heard of XFCE before installing Mythbuntu, so I did not know it had<br>
> limitations that Unity and Gnome did not.<br>
><br>
> I am just trying to learn here, not stir up resentment.<br>
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</div></div>Have you tried clicking the panel and seeing if you can add an audio<br>
gizmo? (gizmo being a completely unscientific word I know).<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I did many Google searches on the subject. When I right click on the panel, and click the menu that gives me choices of items to add, audio is not one of them. I did, however, find a discussion on how to install an xfce volume indicator. This just adds a volume slider to the panel.There are no other sound settings. I sometimes use Skype and need to easily switch to my wireless headset and microphone, for example.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Rich Brook<div><br></div></div>
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