On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 05:36:10PM +0100, sben1783 wrote: > That did the trick! I created a > /usr/share/applications/vmware-remotemks.desktop > with > X-PulseAudio-Properties=media.role=phone > and now the "cork" works. Thank you very much! > > BUT: it doesn't "uncork" when my phone call within vmware is done. I think > this is supposed to work..? My media player just stays muted forever. Any > hints here? Where would I have to start looking to possibly find details > why it doesn't unmute the media player? I'm assuming you're using module-role-cork for this. If I had to guess at the issue (not being a VMWare user myself), the vmware client might be holding open its audio stream indefinitely once initialized. You can check this by starting and ending a call, then looking at the list of current sink inputs: $ pactl list sink-inputs --Sean
