Ok this might not be the volume control applet itself not working because if I install pavucontrol it and right click on the volume applet on voume control settings it launches pulse audio volume control.
Another workaround to launch alsamixer is pressing alt +f2 to bring up the run dialog and run lxterminal -e alsamixer. or selecting run in the menu and running lxterminal -e alsamixer.
Ok this might not be the volume control applet itself not working because if I install pavucontrol it and right click on the volume applet on voume control settings it launches pulse audio volume control.
Another workaround to launch alsamixer is pressing alt +f2 to bring up the run dialog and run lxterminal -e alsamixer. or selecting run in the menu and running lxterminal -e alsamixer.