Hi, i have slackware 14.2, installed xfce volumed pulse for my multimedia keyboard. added user, added in audio groups. now i had my volume keys worked until i have done slackpkg upgrade-all, i noticed since the new kernel was installed 4.4.132 my volume keys from keyboard is working as root but not with a user.

im using xfce with elementary icons and greybird theme, when i switched back to adwaita theme, my volume icon appears, so i updated the icon cache for elementary icon theme, the volume icon comes back when i press from the keyboard, but after a system restart i have the same problem, as root works fine, as user no keys binded. when i try to bind manually it doesn't recognize the volume up and down button from keyboard.

i reinstalled the system and with kernel 4.4.14 everything is working fine,

when i log out from desktop i saw this:
xfce volumed pulse Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.

now this doesn`t appear but i saw another one:
libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 cannot open no such file
what should i do to fix this problem? should i stay with kernel 4.4.14 or there is something to fix after a system upgrade?

update, installed again 14.2 with kernel 4.4.14 and after restart the volume keys still not working as user, as root works, so i dont know that to do next.

have you used adduser to create the user? have you pressed the up arrow like adduser suggests during the steps?

https://docs.slackware.com/slackbook:users

on 14.2 the suggested groups for a desktop user are

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yes with adduser and after gpasswd -a audio and video for now:
uid=1000(unix01) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),17(audio),18(video)

how do your start your desktop, in runlevel 3 and then "startx" or do you start in runlevel 4 with a *DM?

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runlevel 3 then startx

can you please post the contents of your ~/.xinitrc file?
if you don't have one please post the content of your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

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cat /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# xinitrc.xfce - modified to work around xfce4session bug
# https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8841


########################################################################
## Merge in defaults and keymaps ##
########################################################################

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
/usr/bin/xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
/usr/bin/xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
/usr/bin/xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
/usr/bin/xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

########################################################################
## Start xfce Desktop Environment ##
########################################################################

if [ -z "$DESKTOP_SESSION" -a -x /usr/bin/ck-launch-session ]; then
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startxfce4
else
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startxfce4
fi

if you create an additional user with adduser, pressing the up arrow like described above when suggested so that the user gets added to the groups listed above, and you start your X session as the newly created user, do you still have this issue?

if you execute in a terminal under X the command
which is the output (with the old and the new user)?

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ck-list-sessions
Session5:
unix-user = '1001'
realname = 'sasha'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2018-07-15T17:30:45.074669Z'
login-session-id = '4294967295'
with new user
and with old user:
bash-4.3$ ck-list-sessions
Session4:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'unix'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2018-07-15T17:25:53.053906Z'
login-session-id = '4294967295'
volume keys works now with new user, but as happened many times, im afraid that after restart wont work.

so I would try rebooting and see if they still work with the new user.

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with the new user is working, with the old one no,

thank you very much, but whats the secret? and should i start to update the kernel and the whole system? it will work?

and should i do upgrade in runlevel 3 or desktop? does it matter?

adding the users "the right way", as explained in the first link I posted
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...4/#post5879446

maybe you better open a new topic for this...

this page might be useful
http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:beginners_guide

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