If you use Mate as your Linux Desktop you may have noticed that your volume control disappears now and then.<\/p>\n
For me this started about a month ago and I found a quick fix. Go to terminal and enter:<\/p>\n
killall mate-panel<\/p>\n
This kills the mate-panel. Then, the panel will automatically come back, and some stuff that was broken may now be less broken.<\/p>\n
This worked to restore the volume control until about two weeks ago, and that stopped working. I probably changed something else on the panel. So, the above fix may or may not work for you.<\/p>\n
A second fix, not as good, is working for me. I opened the Control Center, and found the “sound” section (under “Hardware”) Then, I dragged that to the panel.<\/p>\n
This allows you access to the volume control, though not as a simple widget. Rather, it give you the whole sound system configuration dialog.<\/p>\n
Once I did that I realized that I’ll just keep that on the panel even when the sound applet starts working again, because it is pretty darn convenient.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, yes, this is a bug, it has been reported and it is being discussed. I think this is simply something that will eventually be fixed, and after some future upgrade you’ll find it is no longer a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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