On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 00:03 +0300, Nikolay Amiantov wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a laptop with an internal audio output device and wireless > headphones with a USB dongle which registers itself as an another > device. I want fallback device and all current and future audio streams > to automatically switch to headphones when I plug them in. From reading > manuals, it seems I need combination of two modules: > > * module-switch-on-connect to switch all current streams and fallback > device to the new one on connect; > * module-stream-restore restore_device=false to forget all device > settings, so all new streams are connected to the fallback device, which > should be headphones. > > Alas, it doesn't work for me -- on connection the fallback device is > switched, but not current streams neither future ones. If I kill > pulseaudio and clear ~/.config/pulse things seem to work correctly for > some time, but stop after that! I haven't yet been able to understand > exactly what is needed to happen for this to stop working. > > Any ideas what should I do? Thanks in advance! > > I use pulseaudio 7.1 on NixOS (a Linux distribution). > My configuration file: > https://github.com/abbradar/dotfiles/blob/master/default.pa Do you use KDE? If you load module-stream-restore with restore_device=false, and the fallback sink is set correctly, the only reason I can think of why streams would not go to the fallback sink is that module-device-manager is loaded. The module is not in default.pa, but start-pulseaudio-x11 loads it when run as part of KDE session initialization, and I think KMix might load it too if not already loaded. When things don't work, does "pactl list modules" show module- device-manager? --Â Tanu
