'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 06/01/10 11:33 did gyre and gimble: > is there a way, e g via pacmd, to get the current default/fallback > playback (and record) device? There is no get-default-sink command. > List-sinks shows a "priority" item, is this something I can reliably > use, i e take the highest value to get the current fallback device? pactl stat | grep Default But please remember that the pacmd thing is not really a proper pulseaudio client, and you should really use pactl for command line integration whenever possible (pacmd does expose more stuff for development/debugging etc.) 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/]
