Le 03/01/2012 00:07, Lennart Poettering a ?crit : > On Tue, 03.01.12 00:53, Roman Beslik (rabeslik at gmail.com) wrote: > >> As far as I understand, PulseAudio uses an interesting strategy of >> routing sound to several sound cards. Instead of selecting a sound >> card in each client, a sound card is selected in a general program, >> e.g. "pavucontrol." >> >> There is an exception. The program "System Sounds" is always present >> in "pavucontrol" but without a sound card list. Instead, I chose a >> sound card for system sounds in "gnome-sound-applet." This is >> inconvenient and even strange. > > Well, it's quite hard grabbing a volume slider that is visible only for > a very short time, since event sounds tend to be< 1s in length... Indeed! And I wish there was a more generic solution to this: I currently can?t reduce the volume of Pidgin?s notifications? Happy New Year!