On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 07:40:01PM +0100, Lukas Ruzicka wrote: > Yeah, this is the option to set it as a default device :) Funny, ain't it? > > I think it has something to do with the options to set specific devices for > specific applications on the "Playback" tab. This way, you could route your > Firefox sounds through a different device and your Rhythmbox music through > another one. I have tried, it's splendid. When, however, such a device does > not exist, the playback returns to the default (fallback) one. If the > fallback one disappears, but another is present, it would fallback to that > present device, so your system should never remain soundless. Yeah, I definitely see why that would be awesome if that's what I wanted to do. I think maybe this is happening when I come back and the screen has been asleep. Maybe the external USB sound device is also sleeping, and so appears to not exist temporarily, causing the system to, well, _fall back_ to the other available non-default device. Since that's not plugged into anything with speakers, that means the system goes soundless after all. So maybe I just have a weird case here. > > so that should solve my immediate problem. (There are also Realtek USB > > audio devices, which are the front and rear audio jacks on the system, > > but those were _already_ Off, through no known action of mine.) > > It is probably clever enough to recognize no output speaker is connected to > it and therefore it is inactive. This totally makes sense -- the Navi 10 audio, the one Firefox ends up pointing to, is connected by HDMI, and plugged into a monitor. Not sure if there's a way for the system to know that that monitor has no sound output options. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
