'Twas brillig, and Arun Raghavan at 17/10/11 13:08 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 17:34 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 12:04 -0400, Cyrus Vafadari wrote: >>> Is there a way to rename a sink? >>> >>> >>> i.e., I want the pacmd list-sinks to return "name: <Basement>" instead >>> of "name: >>> <alsa_output.usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_PnP_Sound_Device-00-Device.analog-stereo>" >>> >>> >>> card: 2 >>> <alsa_card.usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_PnP_Sound_Device-00-Device> >>> device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:2:1.0" >>> sysfs.path = >>> "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0/sound/card1" >> >> You need to load module-device-manager (add 'load-module >> module-device-manager' to your ~/.pulse/default.pa >> or /etc/pulse/default.pa) and then you can right click on the sink name >> in pavucontrol to rename it. > > Ah, I was wrong -- it only sets device.description as Maarten described. Still if it's a UI think this might be sufficient. That said, depending on how things work out in the future, more emphasis might be placed on card + port names rather than sink names specifically.... this is somewhat work in progress tho'. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
