It's great that <i>pavucontrol</i> offers a fallback device option. But why doesn't it offer one for selecting which device would you like to be default?<div><br></div><div>My use case: I'm on a laptop and have a wireless usb headset. I prefer that everything is played/recorded via the headset, when the headset is connected to the laptop.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Currently with PulseAudio, every new app that I start will use the onboard sound card. I have to manually go to pavucontrol, and change the streams to my headset. PA will also, at some point later in time, randomly forget that and reset back to the soundcard, but I haven't found the reliable pattern for that to report it.</div>