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Grem41 · Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 42 Location: Portsmouth UK

Hi everyone, hope you can help.

I managed to lose the speaker icon that normally shows in the Right Hand Corner of the screen. I using Lucid 525, kernel 2.6.33.2 if it helps.

Thanks

Grem41 · Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 42 Location: Portsmouth UK

Photographic evidence what I seeing.
Sorry about the amateurish outline shown I'm not an artist as you can see.

disciple · Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2013, 20:30 Post subject:

I your sound working apart from that?
do you get an error message if you run 'retrovol' in a terminal?

disciple · Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2013, 20:31 Post subject:

Although your puppy may have something else than retrovol...

Grem41 · Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 42 Location: Portsmouth UK

I can report that I have sound set via Alsamixer to adjust various settings.
Ran retrovol by typing retrovol into terminal, no errors appeared so assume it's working O.K.
Still no icon displayed on reboot

disciple · Posted: Wed 09 Jan 2013, 22:35 Post subject:

I presume the icon is there before the reboot, is it?
I think retrovol is normally started by a symlink (to /usr/bin/retrovol) in /root/startup. But maybe it is started by a line in /root/.xinitrc or somewhere, or a jwm startup command. Any of those should work though.

Grem41 · Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 42 Location: Portsmouth UK

In answer to your questions.

1) I can report that there was no icon either before reboot or after. I was hoping that the icon would reappear once I ran retrovol & rebooted.

2) The file retovol was present /usr/bin/ directory with only a relative link.

3) The file .xinitrc was not present in /root/ directory or anywhere else.

4) I ran jwm in terminal with following error reported
JWM : error: displayed already managed

I am very much a newbie so forgive me if I tend to ask stupid questions since I have limited Puppy skills.

Sylvander · Posted: Thu 10 Jan 2013, 12:35 Post subject:

Use the latest version of Lupu...
528.005 methinks.

In former times, when Lupu was my number-1 Puppy...
At a particular point in its development...
may have been 525...
There was a problem with the speaker icon disappearing after a couple of reboots.
The problem was eliminated by the developer, and the version updated.

disciple · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2013, 02:22 Post subject:

Start retrovol and check in its settings whether the tray icon has been disabled.