On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 11:06 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > a --show-defaults command line parameter would show the current source and > also show the current sink. For whatever reason in the middle of > operation yesterday afternoon pulseaudio lost its sink and only produced > static on speakers that earlier were telling me the screen contents. This > morning I had to do some guessing to figure this out. As a result, > pulseaudio was nearly the cause for reinstalling a working system which > has lots of additional files on it by now. pamixer is not developed by the PulseAudio project. The main developer of pamixer seems to be Clément Démoulins <clement at archivel.fr> Note that you can get the current default sink and source with command "pactl info". > Since I'm not on the netctl list could one of the list members forward > this next part along to them? > On a system boot netctl tells a user that a process made by wifi-menu > failed to start. > This happens in one case when an internet connection is already alive. It > would be nice if netctl could detect this live condition and provide an > appropriate message. It's the difference between a status message and an > error message. Why are you asking pulseaudio-discuss members to forward your message to the netctl list? I don't even know what netctl is. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk