On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 10:38:31PM +0100, sben1783 wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using VMware Horizon client from kubuntu to work on my companies windows > machine. My idea was to play some music from my own machine while doing > monkey work within VMware. I was very happy to read about the "cork" > mechanism in order to mute that music as soon as I get a business call or am > attending an online meeting within VMware. Unfortunately, I haven't been > able to figure out how to set the "media.role" for the VMware binary. I see, > f.ex., that vlc has media.role=video, but the VMware client doesn't have > any. I tried to set it via a .desktop file, but that fails - probably > because the VMware application I start (vmware-view) spawns some other > binary and the media.role property is not passed on to the child process? I think using the .desktop file is probably your best bet (though I haven't tried it myself; this is just from a quick scan of the PA code). You can see specifically which binary has spawned the pulseaudio connection by running the command "pacmd list-sink-inputs" and looking at the application.process.binary attribute. If that isn't specific enough, you can use application.process.id to get the PID, then check it like so: $ stat /proc/<FOUND PID>/exe Which returns something like: File: /proc/1581/exe -> /usr/bin/mplayer --Sean
