On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 15:06 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I have found that the personal Settings->Sessions has the settings to > start the gnome-volume-manager, and the current sessions shows that > it is "included", however the icon fails to appear. Wrong thing. That's to do with mounting disc volumes. rpm -qi gnome-volume-manager If you add the "volume control" applet, with the icon of a rotary volume control, and the description of "adjust the sound volume," that should do what you want. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.