On Dec 17, 2007 12:42 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <<a href="mailto:tanuk@iki.fi">tanuk@iki.fi</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 06:15:59PM -0500, Ritesh Kumar wrote:<br>>    BTW, what does pacmd's set-default-sink/source do? What is the meaning of<br>> the default sink? I figured out that alsamixer (through the pulse alsa <br>> plugin) always changes the mixer controls for the current default sink as<br>> per the pulseaudio daemon. However, I don't think the playback of a<br>> connecting client always goes to the current default sink. Is this expected <br>> behavior?<br><br></div>I think module-volume-restore is putting the streams it<br>recognizes to some other sink than the default. That is<br>expected behaviour. Otherwise the default sink should get<br>all new streams, assuming that the PULSE_SINK environment <br>variable isn't set.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>That works. However, now it seems that the current default sink is also used for any new sink-inputs. I was hoping that the client would be associated to the default sink when it connected and any new sink-inputs from the client always went to that sink. Seems more intuitive, doesn't it? <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>>     Plus, I had a little suggestion too. Can we have a <br>> get-default-sink/source command in pacmd/pactl?<br><br></div>Create a ticket in Trac. I suppose that wouldn't be hard at<br>all to implement, at least for pacmd.<br><font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div> <br>Done. Thanks a lot!<br><br>Ritesh<br></div></div><br>