Ubuntu – Exaile Sound Indicator Menu Integration

I managed to solve the problem myself.

The problem was that, for some reason I don't know or remember, I was not the "owner" of my home folder, and because of that I couldn't kill the pulseaudio process... I realized that when Ubuntu tried to update the .ICEauthority file located in my home folder and had trouble with the permissions.

Running the following command should solve the .ICEauthority and volume control not working for people with the same problem as me:

sudo chown "user":"user" /home/"user"

And thats it! :)

By running dconf-editor from the dconf-tools we may incorporate an MPRIS complatible media player application to the sound menu with the key "com.canonical.indicator.sound.interested-media-players".

In the example here test was included which points to a test.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications where we can run our appplication from the Exec= field. Restart your session to take effect.

As an entry in this menu is closely related to a media player, application control is done by DBus session bus com.canonical.indicator.sound. This is why we will not be able to re-run a script until a reset of the indicator was done. I succeeded to restart the test application after performing Shutdown() on the org/ayatana/indicator/service object but this is quite a hack and definitely not the way the indicator sound menu should be used.

It may however point to the right direction. i.e. we need to make use of DBus for our script or application we want to reside in the sound indicator menu.