[SOLVED]No seek bar on audio players and sound issues

[kazakore]

OK maybe I should be searching and reading rather than asking questions but I currently have no internet at home so am posting from work while trying to remember experiences and symptoms. But as mentioned in the other thread I installed KXStudio over the weekend, unfortunately not knowing that the Sourceforge servers were not currently running at full capacity, affecting the KXStudio repos. Hopefully some of this can be explained by failed updates due to the servers being down and I hope you can put my mind to rest that all this should be simple once I can actually do a successful update... (Strange how KXStudio still seems to be down when most of the site seems back )

I managed to get audio out of Audacity using ALSA in the end. Although I had set everything in the Audio Settings menus I could find (rather than a manual edit of asound.rc) I still had no sound. From the menus within Audacity itself I make sure ALSA is selected but has to change the device from Default to SysDefault for it to pick it up and give me sound using the onboard chipset. I have not managed to get audio from any other program though!!

This brought me to thinking maybe I should go back to running everything through Jack again, which I did for quite some time when running Ubuntu Studio a while back. So I tried my usual method of opening qjackctl to set everything up and start the Jack server. It appears qjackctl isn't installed with KXStudio and I know you have a lot of your own tools for sessions and things so assume I should be using the right tool. How I have the interenet in front of me I can search and assume that would be Cadence right??

Although I do like to use one program I have never managed to get working with Jack, although supposedly you should be able to use the gstreamer>Jack plugin I never had any success. The program in question is Rhythmbox (with a little plugin written by a friend of mine) for simple playing back of files in a library and some sorting of id3 tags. Anybody managed to get it successfully working with Jack? Or in KXStudio otherwise??


A final, GUI rather than audio issue. Neither Audacity nor Rhythmbox have the seek bar visible! I have been through all settings I can find and changed themes, icons and any other settings I could find any nothing helped here! (In fact Audacity didn't seem to follow any changes at all when other windows did!) And then Rhythmbox also has missing icons for all it's buttons so they just show up as a red cross at the moment... What have you done to Audacity to make it match your standard theme (but then not follow other themes)?? How can I get my seek bars visible? It is clearly there as I can skip audio by clicking in the right area it just can't be seen...

[kazakore]

After setting up Jack to use correct audio interface (rather than a Loopback device that writes nowhere) I now have audio from any application I set to Jack and it seems Rhythmbox will now work alongside running Alsa (when it didn't seem to want to play ball at all.)

Still no visible seek bars in my players though! But also still not managed to get things correctly updated since the failed on when SF was down so starting to think a full reinstall may be in order...

[kazakore]

Thanks falkTX now have the system updating with no errors and have audio working. Here is a screenshot of the GUI issue of no seek bars in the audio players though. Hoped updating the system after the previous issues might have fixed this as well. Any ideas?? As you can see Rhythmbox is even missing most of its button images, but that may have been me checking out different themes and settings seeing if I could find anything to get the seek bars to become visible previously...

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[kazakore]

that's not an issue with the apps, but with the gtk3 theme I made for kxstudio.
It was never completed, and has several issues.

you need to change the gtk3 theme to something else.

That's it! Had thought it might be something there but think I forgot to close and reopen the applications when trying the different themes last time so obviously didn't see any effect.

The other two themes (Default and Emacs) are horrible and really don't fit with the nice dark themes of everything else! Have you got plans for the last few tweeks? Or suggest an existing theme to download and add?


EDIT: Also just tried every available theme under the Icons tab and not a single one of them gives me images for the buttons in Rhythmbox!

EDIT2: Rhythmbox icons fixed. "you need to install gnome-icon-theme maybe also gnome-icon-theme-extras and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic" from Googling worked.



Time to look for other gtk3 dark themes though...


EDIT3:
Installed "Mona 3.0" "Ambience Dark Blue" and "NumixDarkRed" which all seems usable and not too far off the KXStudio colours (although from just a quick glance I can't see the difference between the first two.) Can I suggest these are added to the standard install so people don't have the issue with your main audio player having an invisible seek bar?

Also either as default or some kind of dependency for the gnome icon files required to get Rhythmbox fully operational.

[luciorgomes]

Try the gtk2-engines-oxigen and gtk3-engines-oxigen packages that "ensures visual consistency between GTK+ and Qt-based applications running under KDE."

[kazakore]

Try the gtk2-engines-oxigen and gtk3-engines-oxigen packages that "ensures visual consistency between GTK+ and Qt-based applications running under KDE."

(I thought) Oxygen is a light coloured theme and not going to work to make it fit with the rest of the OS appearance.

But thought I'd give it a go and although Oxygen looks like it's all light colours under the main KDE appearances it seems to look good here. Although installed a few others to have a look and play with so thank you very much for pointing me in that direction

[kazakore]

Oxygen-gtk theme breaks things in the GUI operation. I could no longer drag items within the Audacious GUI, either to change the order in the playlist or to copy the files by dragging into a file browser (I've gone back to using Thunar as I didn't like Dolphin but that's neither here nor there.)

I am now using the XFCE-Dusk themes and they match the closest to how I have everything else (minor tweaks from standard install) and think I am happy enough to leave it as it is, although I can't say it's quite 100% perfect.


EDIT:

I noticed another problem a couple of days ago, while still using the Mono3.0 theme, and I could not see the text in the entry fields when typing into Facebook using Firefox. Not tested since I've changed to XFCE-Dusk and I don't even know which GUI framework Firefox uses or if it might be related. Do you have any idea of what this issues might be F?

[kazakore]

I noticed another problem a couple of days ago, while still using the Mono3.0 theme, and I could not see the text in the entry fields when typing into Facebook using Firefox. Not tested since I've changed to XFCE-Dusk and I don't even know which GUI framework Firefox uses or if it might be related. Do you have any idea of what this issues might be F?

Confirmed still exists since playing with themes again. Can't view text in the entry boxes unless I select it all.

[kazakore]

Don't suppose you'd mind having a look at this thread and seeing if you have any ideas as it is KXStudio I am running. As it shouldn't be specific to the distro I'm running I posted it in the more general forum. Guess I could post to the Ubuntu forum as well if nobody seems to know (although I pretty much gave up with the idea of getting any useful replies from their forum some time ago!)

http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=14267