That does rely on applications behaving well. What about a short-lived alsa audio program? There should be a way to apply a match to these too... maybe a history of streams? Or simply a minimum time that streams live in pavumeter before it disappears? On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 15:13, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Brian J. Murrell at 29/10/09 19:55 did gyre and gimble: >> >> How could I set the volume (i.e. with pavucontrol) for a short lived >> audio stream such as the beep that metacity now delivers, for example >> when you echo ^G? >> >> Using PA 0.9.19 now. > > This beeb should be marked with media.role=event and thus should be > adjustable via the "Sound Events" slider in pavucontrol should control your > volume. That said, I'm not 100% certain how metacity produces this sound, > but I suspect it's via libcanberra in which case it's definitely setup like > that. > > 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/] > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >