On 22.07.2017 11:59, Georg Chini wrote: > On 22.07.2017 11:37, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Debian 9.0.0 comes with pulseaudio 10.0, so it's not likely that fixes >> for the problem are in the wild yet, I figure. >> >> Even when a Debian 9.0.0 box is connected to a HDMI monitor, PulseAudio >> Volume Control displays only 3 of its 5 tabs, supressing the vital >> Configuration tab, needed for switching audio output to HDMI. Depriving >> the user of knowledge of the availability of the Configuration tab, by >> burying it under two levels of blind hammering on a tiny inscrutable >> icon in the corner is a monstrous disservice to the user, and a rather >> weird design decision. Much space is wasted in the width of the 3 >> displayed tabs, and on many a screen there is at least half a yard of >> screen width spare for the other 2 tabs. >> discuss > > Hi Erik, > > I don't really understand. Are you talking about pavucontrol when > you are saying "PulseAudio Volume Control"? > As far as I know, pavucontol always displays 5 tabs, the configuration > is one of them and there is no option to suppress any of the tabs. > > If this is different in your distribution or you are not talking about > pavucontrol, the pulseaudio mailing list is the wrong place to complain. > You have to go back to the maintainers of your distribution. (Although > I am running Debian unstable and pavucontrol there displays all 5 tabs, > so I understand your complain even less.) > > Regards > Georg (There is a "t" missing above ...) I've just seen there is a pavucontrol-qt package. Maybe you are using that. From https://github.com/lxde/pavucontrol-qt: "The software belongs to the LXQt project but its usage isn't limited to this desktop environment." So you may have to ask them to change the behavior.
