I can't add a Indicator Applet to Panel in Gnome-Classic

ubuntu 11.10

I recently changed unity for classic Desktop. So, i noticed that the volume control dissappeared.

So i read everywhere that the only thing to do is add the Inidicator Applet in the panel. But i dont have that option in my applet list.

Solution 1:

Indicator-Applet

Indicator-applet is now available for testing in a PPA.

As with all PPAs - these are for testing purposes. Have a stable backup or use ppa-purge to remove PPAs that could make your system unstable.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jconti/gnome3
sudo apt-get update

Now install the applet you want to add to the panel:

1) The whole indicator applet:

sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-complete

2) Unity Global Menu type applet:

sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-appmenu

3) Session applet:

sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-session

4) Standard applet:

sudo apt-get install indicator-applet

To add to the panel:

Win+Alt+Right click the panel if using Gnome-Classic or Alt+Right click the panel if using Gnome-Classic (No Effects)

Choose Add To Panel and add the following indicator

You can tidy up by removing the old notification area.

The end-result could look like this:

N.B. I've also added RadioTray, StackApplet and Skype...

Solution 2:

The indicator applet has not been ported to GNOME 3 and GTK3 yet. This is required for it to work in Ubuntu 11.10. There is currenly a bug tracking it.