Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes: > On Fri, 30.10.09 08:15, Brian J. Murrell (brian at interlinx.bc.ca) wrote: > >> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 02:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> > >> > This is admittedly a problem, but I kinda hope that it will fix >> > itself by applications tagging event sounds properly. >> >> I'm sceptical. >> >> > I certainly would make sense to allow volume changes shortly after a >> > stream died. The low-level technology in PA allows that, it's just that >> > g-v-c and pavucontrol currently do not make use of this. >> >> In the meanwhile, is there anything I can do manually to effect this? >> Command line is just fine with me in the interim. > > You can just tag your streams properly via env vars, as already > pointed out, and then use the system sound slider: > > $ PULSE_PROP='media.role=event' metacity The code on http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/ApplicationProperties seems to set this instead: $ PULSE_PROP_media.role=event metacity Does both work, or am I just confused? -- David K?gedal
