On Mon, 15.02.10 17:02, poort (poort at telenet.be) wrote: > Thanks, > But I was thinking on a script that will be called with GDM's > Postlogin default script.The script should find the user's default > sink and put the volume to max or 80 % with set-sink-volume "users > default sink" 55000 Uh, that's a very bad idea, as for cards with builtin amplifiers (such as USB speakers) 80% will blast off your ears. 80% has no defined meaning and will result in completely different volumes on different hardware. If at all use "alsctl init 0" which is a lot smarter about coming up with good default, based on the hw in use. But that said it is presumably a much better idea to use the default logic which saves/restores the volume settings between sessions, as Colin pointed out. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4