On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 1:56:14 AM UTC-4, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:29 PM, cooloutac <raahe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The sound mixer app I installed xfe in mutes things when I lower the volume > > all the way by accident. Never realized till now lol. I always have to go > > into dom0 alsamixer. > > > > Is there a better plugin to use? Does a new iso come with one by default > > now? > > This same exact bug keeps coming up again and again. See: > - https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2550 > - https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2117 > - https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2291 > - https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2321 > - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/53TYf5GYkqY/ZU8i5v6JAwAJ > > This was fixed a while ago, but people don't get the fix because of > the limitations of updating dom0 by only updating the packages > installed there. When things get fixed in the installer, they don't > trickle down to existing systems, and we don't publish new release > ISOs except for on major releases. This means the default install is > often broken, and many people end up needing to independently solve > the same problems over and over. This is clearly not ideal, and IMO > the way in which we manage dom0 needs some rethinking. > > For this specific case I think we'd need a meta-package tracking which > packages are installed by the installer, and have the installer just > list that one and have deps of it be pulled in automatically. That > would let us update *which* packages are installed by default and have > that change affect existing installs. Then, as for actually putting > the new mixer in the panel, we'd probably need a %post section in a > relevant package or something. > > IMO updating needs a better solution overall. I tried to start a > discussion about this here: > - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/dCctVsf15dE/discussion > but it didn't go anywhere.
yes I feel like the losing sound issue is the most common Qubes problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/4abbbb05-d230-4dd5-afab-2f69ff2242c4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
