[LAU] pulse config

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Tue May 5 21:46:03 EDT 2009



Burkhard Ritter wrote:
> TheOther wrote:
>   
>>> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>> Why doesn't pulse audio have a simple config gui for choosing the 
>>>> default sound server and card order?
>>>>         
> [...]
>   
>> However that didn't help me when running various applications because 
>> in those applications, PulseAudio would go with the first sound 
>> chip/card in the PulseAudio chip/card order; and I was never able to 
>> find a way to change that order.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but you can move audio 
> streams (from different applications) between your cards and pulse audio 
> usualy remembers your decision. This is again in a context menu, I think 
> this time when you right click on the stream in the volume application. 
> Pulseaudio also acts sensibly when I remove my usb sound card - it plays 
> everything on the build in sound card.
>
>   

This reminds me that I am not seeing this interface in the default 
Fedora 10 toolset. I have used it on Fedora 8/9 but it seems to have 
disappeared in 10.

What is the actual name of the applet?


Cheers.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd







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