Just got back to this. I managed to get it to work and wrote a couple of short awk programs to parse the output of pacmd list and that eliminated most of the hard coded values I was using blindly. I still don't know what I am doing, but it works. What initially threw me was that the pactl command returned more than one result (which I wasn't expecting) and the first one wasn't the one I needed. The only remaining weirdness (pending further testing and use) is that vlc seems to remember what audio output it was last using - even if it isn't running when I switch the outputs. When that happens, I have to go into the audio menu of vlc and manually select the current desired output. No big deal, just unexpected. Joe On 10/24/2016 12:47 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Sat, 2016-10-22 at 02:00 -0400, Joe wrote: >> Before I get into all the details of my script, etc., I would be very >> happy to use someone else's utility that does what I want, if it already >> exists. I want to click an icon and get results without having to >> navigate through a bunch of GUI menus every time. >> >> When it worked, I used this script many times a week, so I'd really like >> to get it working again. >> >> I cobbled together the attached script from posts on the Internet. It >> worked fine in 12.04, but is completely broken in 16.04 because the >> output of the commands it parses has changed, etc.. > It would be helpful if you could describe in more detail what part of > the script isn't working as expected. > > -- > Tanu > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
