[LAU] pulse config

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Tue May 5 22:29:51 EDT 2009



Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 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?
>
>   


I found it. On Fedora the volume applet and the pulse audio volume 
applet have the same icon which is just a little confusing.










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