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Bug 591746 - gnome-volume-control window size is huge with loads of applications
gnome-volume-control window size is huge with loads of applications
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Sound
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Control center sound maintainer(s)
Control-Center Maintainers
3.10
: 604698 623573 647457 712281 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-13 21:00 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2021-06-09 16:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28



Description Pedro Villavicencio 2009-08-13 21:00:13 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
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2009-08-13 22:59:52 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-12-16 11:59:18 UTC
*** Bug 604698 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Hantsy 2009-12-16 12:20:59 UTC
Is there any plan to fix it ???
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2009-12-16 12:25:40 UTC
Yes, that's why the bug is still opened.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2010-07-20 10:05:29 UTC
*** Bug 623573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2010-09-08 17:21:14 UTC
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
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2011-04-11 16:21:41 UTC
We didn't fix the height problem though...
Comment 8 Bastien Nocera 2011-04-11 16:22:28 UTC
*** Bug 647457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Bastien Nocera 2012-08-24 17:20:27 UTC
Mass reassign, sorry for the noise.
Comment 10 Bastien Nocera 2013-11-14 10:25:26 UTC
*** Bug 712281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 André Klapper 2021-06-09 16:07:29 UTC
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.