Cannot see the new brightness or sound values when turning the brightness or volume higher or lower, how do I fix this?

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I recently installed an update. After I restarted I noticed that when I lowered the brightness or volume lower or higher, it would not show the new value in the purple box that would previously come. I'm relatively new to Linux but I know quite a few commands (I'm willing to do terminal stuff).

I've tried restarting but that hasn't worked out. I've realized that when I connect to a new wifi network it shows a different panel (that is now white). Is this a "new feature", or something that I can fix?

I also tested out the different Unity theme Radiance sometime back, but I don't think that's the issue.

Edit: The output of uname -r:

aparms@aparms-PC:~$ uname -r
4.8.0-36-generic

Can you open the terminal and use uname -r and update your question with the output? — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Mar 08 '17 at 03:27
Are you sure you are running 16.04 (which uses Kernel 4.4.0) and not Ubuntu 16.10 (which uses Kernel 4.8.0)? — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Mar 08 '17 at 23:49
I also noticed that when I play songs the notification has changed from a purple background to a white one. — , Mar 09 '17 at 01:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 01:51

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You can try to install a custom notify-osd package from https://launchpad.net/~leolik/+archive/ubuntu/leolik

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik
sudo apt-get update

answered Mar 09 '17 at 01:51

Adel Kihal

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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I found the answer. Apparently when I installed xfce, it came with its own notifications and it replaced the default Ubuntu one. I found the answer here.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Mar 09 '17 at 13:44

Cannot see the new brightness or sound values when turning the brightness or volume higher or lower, how do I fix this?

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