gnome-volume-control-applet does not run at startup

[Rocko]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

In my Lucid alpha 3 installation, gnome-volume-control-applet does not run when I log in. It runs fine from the command line, though.

I'm using my home directory from Karmic. Has the way to specify that gnome-volume-control-applet should run changed in Lucid, eg does it need to be added to the start up programs?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1bd8e90541d49b96c13cbfcc9baf103b
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Sun Feb 28 08:24:05 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-applets 2.29.5-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-applets
Uname: Linux 2.6.33-generic x86_64

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

It may be relevant that instead of the volume control applet I now get a keyboard indicator applet that I can't get rid of in the notification area. (I didn't notice it at first because it writes the keyboard layout in black text over black background.)

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

OK, it seems that the volume and bluetooth indicators in Lucid now appear in the indicator applet, not in the notification area applet. This is a pain because (a) the network etc indicators appear in the notification area, so now you need both the notification area and the indicator applet, and (b) I don't want the indicator applet to appear in any case. It has an indicator for Evolution mail that I don't want and can't figure out how to get rid of.

Is there a way to configure what appears in the notification area and indicator applets so I can select the notifications I want?

[Anzenketh (anzenketh)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> so now you need both the notification area and the indicator applet

that's a transitional state everything is going to be migrated to the indicator system over time, not this cycle though

> Is there a way to configure what appears in the notification area and indicator applets so I can select the notifications I want?

you will not get notification for things not running, if you are concerned about the launchers the list is in /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications and you can also tweak in your user dir but I'm not sure about the directory now