Volume Control widget intermittent in System Tray

[Fester Bestertester]

Greetings!

The Volume Control widget in the System Tray appears only intermittently (15.04amd64). If it doesn't show, there is instead a blank space in its accustomed place (next to the Wi-Fi). It's not just the icon missing; there's no pop-up on hover and no response to a click there.

I'm hoping for better in 16.04 LTS.

[kri5]

I have the same problem with 15:10.
The sound/volume icon intermittently appears in the system tray, more often than not it is missing however!

[Fester Bestertester]

Yep. Same in 15.10

[john2]

A workaround is to set it to hidden in the system tray, and add "Audio Volume" as a panel widget.

[Fester Bestertester]

Fine, but it takes it out of the Tray, using up 'real estate'.

[john2]

Hopefully it will be fixed soon. I only get the problem on a desktop with nvidia graphics using the nouveau driver. I haven't had a problem (so far) on a Lenovo B50 laptop (Intel).

[vinnywright]

A workaround is to set it to hidden in the system tray, and add "Audio Volume" as a panel widget.

or instead of adding a widget ,,,,just install kmix.

VINNY

[john2]

Good idea. Kmix gives more control over what is shown - useful if you want the icon to show the levels on HDMI, for example.

[john2]

It's not just the volume icon. The same thing has started happening to the Network icon.

[Fester Bestertester]

Methinks there's something deeper at play here. Volume Control, Networks - *and* Muon Updater - *all* with random hiccups, all in the System Tray, and that in the Panel. This deserves more serious consideration and attention.

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