On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 11:27 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 31/12/09 10:40 did gyre and gimble: > > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 08:44 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > >> > >> Hmm, is it then impossible to move event sounds? Doesn't seem like a > >> good way to do it. > > > > Any comments? I can't find a way to move event sounds from my laptop > > speakers to my BT headphone (and my soon-to-come USB audio card I > > suppose). > > Just set the device as the default/fallback and it'll be used for event > sounds (as I said before). > > Is this not flexible enough? There is technically no reason why we > cannot enable this kind of moving, but I guess Lennart originally > omitted it from pavucontrol for a reason so I would prefer his feedback > before committing to anything. > > Col > Apologies for not reading your previous response properly, I was assuming that my on-board MUST be defalt. My main issue is that this is different from how any other stream is handled. Imagine I have 3 sound output choices (a headset (A), on-board (B), some USB sound-card (C)). For a normal app, I set a preferred sink and it falls back to default, for example I'd always prefer it to be on A and to move to B if that's not possible. For event sounds, however, the only way to get it to be on A is to set A as a default, then in the case A is disconnected, its a toss up whether B or C gets event sounds (I'm sure there's some consistency, but it may not be the one I want?).
