'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 25/11/09 19:50 did gyre and gimble: > 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. Yeah (I meant to mention this in my reply too but forgot!). The g-v-c system will actually update the stream-restore database in PA to rewrite the previously stored devices. This is the critical difference between it and pavucontrol in terms of the defaults. Personally I find it all rather clunky and would like to see more robust handling inside PA in this regard. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]