On Tue, 29.12.09 00:30, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > A follow-up on this, how do I move event sounds to a different sink? For > > other streams I simply use pavucontrol, but it doesn't seem that there's > > any selector for the "System Sounds" item. It just selects the > > 'normal' (laptop sound card output) and I can't figure a way to move it > > to my BT headset without turning the sound card output off. > > I believe that libcanberra always ensures that event sounds are played > on the default sink. Not sure of the inner workings there nor of whether > it should be a stream-restore job (it's capable of routing e.g. all > event sounds to a given sink, overriding (IIRC) the per-application > device rules. Nah, event sounds are treated exactly like other streams that are tagged with a role. m-s-r will save/restore a volume and a device for it, like it does for all others treams too. libcanberra induced sounds are really nothing special, and libcanberra does not try to outsmart PA. > Incidentally Lennart, can you sort out the following: > > http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html : > Version says 0.2 at the top, change summary mentions 0.5. > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec : > Links to the above link as "version 0.3" (not 0.2 or 0.5 as expected!) Fixed now. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
