System tray volume icon doesn't show if I use GNOME, HighContrast, or Adwaita icon themes.

[bardacuda]

I have an issue where my audio tray icon won't show up with either of those themes. It works if I use Vertex-Maia or any of the Vibrancy icon themes but after checking them all out I'd prefer to use GNOME.

I did some searching and the only possible solution I came across was to rename the icons in the folder from audio-volume-<level>.<extension> to audio-volume-<level>-panel.svg. Tried that and it didn't help.

This is what the system tray looks like with the GNOME theme:

My DE is xfce4 in case that's relevant. Other info that may be relevant:

[mainrig@COMPUTER0 ~]$ inxi -ASx                                                                                                                             
System:    Host: COMPUTER0 Kernel: 5.2.4-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.1.0 Desktop: N/A Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Hawaii HDMI Audio [Radeon R9 290/290X / 390/390X] vendor: Gigabyte 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.1 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 0b:00.3 
           Device-3: Kingston type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-4:2 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.2.4-1-MANJARO 
[mainrig@COMPUTER0 ~]$ ls -ashl /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status | grep audio                                                                             
4.0K -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.3K Nov  9  2018 audio-volume-high.png
4.0K -rw-r--r--  1 root root  937 Nov  9  2018 audio-volume-low.png
4.0K -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.1K Nov  9  2018 audio-volume-medium.png
4.0K -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.1K Nov  9  2018 audio-volume-muted.png
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 Nov  9  2018 stock_volume-0.png -> audio-volume-low.png
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   21 Nov  9  2018 stock_volume-max.png -> audio-volume-high.png
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   23 Nov  9  2018 stock_volume-med.png -> audio-volume-medium.png
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 Nov  9  2018 stock_volume-min.png -> audio-volume-low.png
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   22 Nov  9  2018 stock_volume-mute.png -> audio-volume-muted.png
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   21 Nov  9  2018 stock_volume.png -> audio-volume-high.png
[mainrig@COMPUTER0 ~]$

[bardacuda]

Ok well I came home to about 100 packages of updates, many of which were xfce4 related (including xfce4-panel-4.14.0-1 and xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.4.2-2.1), and I tried the renaming thing again and now it just works. hooray

So just to be clear the solution is to copy or rename:

/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/audio-volume-high.png
to
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/audio-volume-high-panel.svg

/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/audio-volume-medium.png
to
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/audio-volume-medium-panel.svg

/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/audio-volume-low.png
to
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/audio-volume-low-panel.svg

and
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/audio-volume-muted.png
to
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/audio-volume-muted-panel.svg

Not sure why this didn't work the other day but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[steanne]

xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.4.2-2.1 was the fix for this (which broke in 0.4.2-2), you should not have needed to rename anything. perhaps you just needed to restart the panel after the update?

[bardacuda]

I did that, in fact I restarted the computer after the update. It didn't get fixed until i renamed the files. I actually renamed them one at a time starting with high and checked after each time, and sure enough the icon only worked when the volume was turned up high...then medium after renaming the medium file, etc.