[pulseaudio-discuss] Automatic selection of an audio sink depending on value of ENV variable

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Leszek Koltunski at 19/10/09 09:38 did gyre and gimble:
> Now, I would make me one happy duck if I could somehow tell Pulse to 
> automatically route audio to hw:1.0 whenever I am working on the TV, 
> that is, whenever DISPLAY is "1.0".

Should be simple, PULSE_SINK= env var does that for you.

But a better option in your case is x11 properties. Pulse can get it's 
configuration from the X11 Root window, e.g. "xprop -root"

Just set the PULSE_SINK xprop on the root window of DISPLAY 1.0 and 
you're all set.

You can get the name you want to use via "pacmd list-sinks"

Nice easy one to answer that :D

Col

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