Hi Colin and Maarten, thanks for your replys and Col for your patch and UI improvements :-) Cheers On Die, Jul 07, 2009, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 07/07/09 20:28 did gyre and gimble: >> Hi Chris, >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Chris Joelly<chris-m-lists at joelly.net> wrote: >>> Is there a way to display the sink_name's i gave using the load-modules >>> directives in the default.pa file? and if not, is there a way to change >>> the way these tools display the sink_name's?> >> >> It's actually the sinks description, not it's name, that is displayed >> in the gui tools. >> >> You can change this by using the sink_properties argument on the >> load-module line in default.pa, e.g. >> sink_properties="device.description='My Preferred Name'". You'll need >> the latest PA for this, probably the soon-to-be-released 0.9.16. >> >> It's even possible to assign an icon to each sink, to have even more >> discoverability for the users of your audio setup. >> >> For more info you can browse back in the list archives for earlier >> conversations about sink descriptions, it's a topic that comes up >> quite a lot. > > For combined sinks the description will be automatically set, so even if > you do pass the device.description property it will be overwritten > immediately! > > In order to fix this you'll need to apply this patch: > http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=commit;h=a007d4740f2afe2eef04acb7c1b6d8371e3417b4 > > > I'm also half-working on a GUI for managing combined sinks directly in > pavucontrol without having to hack about with default.pa so watch this > space :) > > Col >
