On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 15:45 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 28.12.09 17:41, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote: > > > Is there a way to specify a sound to be a 'system sound' as defined by > > System Sounds on pavucontrol, when played by paplay? > > > > If so, then programs such as pidgin which allow playing event > > notifications through a command would be useable without modification. > > paplay --property=media.role=event ... > > Lennart > A follow-up on this, how do I move event sounds to a different sink? For other streams I simply use pavucontrol, but it doesn't seem that there's any selector for the "System Sounds" item. It just selects the 'normal' (laptop sound card output) and I can't figure a way to move it to my BT headset without turning the sound card output off.