[pulseaudio-discuss] setting a volume on a short lived stream

[David Kågedal]

David Kågedal <davidk at lysator.liu.se> writes:

> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 30.10.09 08:15, Brian J. Murrell (brian at interlinx.bc.ca) wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 02:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: 
>>> > 
>>> > This is admittedly a problem, but I kinda hope that it will fix
>>> > itself by applications tagging event sounds properly.
>>> 
>>> I'm sceptical.
>>> 
>>> > I certainly would make sense to allow volume changes shortly after a
>>> > stream died. The low-level technology in PA allows that, it's just that
>>> > g-v-c and pavucontrol currently do not make use of this.
>>> 
>>> In the meanwhile, is there anything I can do manually to effect this?
>>> Command line is just fine with me in the interim.
>>
>> You can just tag your streams properly via env vars, as already
>> pointed out, and then use the system sound slider:
>>
>> $ PULSE_PROP='media.role=event' metacity
>
> The code on http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/ApplicationProperties seems to
> set this instead:
>
> $ PULSE_PROP_media.role=event metacity
>
> Does both work, or am I just confused?

And by the way, neither is mentioned in

http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ#WhatenvironmentvariablesdoesPulseAudiocareabout

-- 
David Kågedal