The ability to use programs like pavucontrol to move streams between sound cards dynamically is very nice. But if the sound is very short it can be a bit cumbersome to do this directly via the gui. I wanted to move an alert sound from my IM-client from the headphones to the external speakers, but the sound entry appears and disappears too quickly for me to catch it in the gui. To work around this, I simply temporarily changed the sound to a longer one, giving me enough time to click in the gui ;-) Surely there must be a better way to do this? Can I use pacmd or similar to dump the existing mappings, and rearrange them? Maybe there could be a couple seconds delay in the gui before the sound entry disappears? A bit tricky to implement, I guess, because in principle, the same event could possibly be triggered multiple times in succession. - Vegard V -
