Keyboard Volume Buttons Don't Change Connected Bluetooth volume

tried messing around with a lot of different things and following different threads but to no avail, so i'm hoping someone here can help me.

I'm running Xubuntu 14.04.2 LTS on an inspiron 7537, bought last year. After months of running around the interwebs like a headless chicken, i've finally, finally managed to get working bluetooth speakers. However one problem remains - the Volume up and down buttons on the keyboard have no effect of the bluetooth speakers when connected. This is turning out to be a real pain. Ive tried settings-settings editor and looking for xfce-mixer as advised in some posts but this doesn't exist in my version of xubuntu.

Can anyone point me in the right direction??

Solution 1:

OK I've finally figured it out, so simple yet I overlooked it completely.

In Volume Control > Output Devices tab I clicked on the green icon Set As Fallback next to the Bluetooth device and that did it. It had remained on the Built-In Audio Analog Stereo device.

Thanks a million for your help anyway!

Solution 2:

Found this at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/1404729:

Just edit this file:

sudo -H gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa

And add the following:

# automatically switch to newly-connected devices
load-module module-switch-on-connect

After adding above lines to file run the following in terminal:

pulseaudio -k

You will need to disconnect and reconnect your Bluetooth device.

Worked just fine for me, maybe it works for you too!