GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 581448
Volume slider works reversed
Last modified: 2009-05-20 01:08:36 UTC
Please describe the problem: One click on mixer applet icon shows simple volume control window (see screenshot). The slider in that window works reversed as it should work - mouse wheel up decreases volume, mouse wheel down increases volume. It should be vice versa. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Created attachment 134016 [details] volume window
This bug has been confirmed by a large number of Ubuntu users, see downstream bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/335333 Also the arrow keys (up/down) are reversed when the horizontal scrollbar is selected, so up reduces volume as with the scrollwheel.
The bug is fundamentally in GTK. See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91961 There is a work-around for gtkrc here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2006-November/msg00124.html I'm working on trying to get a fixup going in the mixer itself.
A workaround has been coded up and should be ready for the (slightly late) 2.26.2 release.