On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com> wrote: > Currently with PulseAudio, every new app that I start will use the onboard > sound card. I have to manually go to pavucontrol, and change the streams to > my headset The new gnome-volume-control applet shipped in 2.28 works just fine for this use case. I know at least it works in Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 running 0.9.21, having just tested each on a different machine both with internal audio and a usb audio device. Secondary-click the speaker icon, choose Sound Preferences, choose the Output tab, and select the radio button for the desired output device.