GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591746
gnome-volume-control window size is huge with loads of applications
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:07:29 UTC
this report has been filed here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/411315 gnome-media version is: 2.27.5-0ubuntu1 "I'm on Ubuntu Karmic alpha with all updates to date. I'm on a second-generation MacBook. My sound worked perfectly under Jaunty and Karmic until the recent Pulse Audio updates. Now many of my applications are hit and miss - youtube won't play sound but games under wine will play sound. But I'm not complaining about that in this bug report. If I look at my processes under System Monitor, I have about 30 instances of "aplay", each of which is using 800, 804 or 808 kbytes of RAM and currently sleeping. I presume that these are sounds that were supposed to play but have failed to do so given the new audio architecture changes. I can kill them manually or using "pulseaudio -k". I have selected "Sound" from my System->Preferences menu to see if I can fix it. It is misbehaving. The sound preferences window has no title and no "X" in the close button's area. The window is about 3 screens high and cannot be resized. If I select the tabs, the screen is only partially drawn - it's as though it wants to spend about a minute redrawing the screen but it never actually gets there. I realize that the underlying problem is with Pulse Audio, but still Sound Preferences shouldn't behave like this. Screenshots should explain." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30101138/Screenshot-Sound%20Preferences.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30101198/Screenshot-Sound%20Preferences-1.png
The only problem that's relevant to gnome-volume-control here is that it sucks when there are loads of applications (which there usually isn't). The 40-odd aplay instances aren't started by PulseAudio or gnome-volume-control. I'd check your third-party apps if I were you.
*** Bug 604698 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there any plan to fix it ???
Yes, that's why the bug is still opened.
*** Bug 623573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
commit c02b6b74e7c41e0360c10604ae6b1ac28e5c2c21 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Wed Sep 8 16:51:03 2010 +0100 Use ellipsise in the application bars So as to avoid the width of the dialogue changing when streams with really long names come in. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569865
We didn't fix the height problem though...
*** Bug 647457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mass reassign, sorry for the noise.
*** Bug 712281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new bug report at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.