[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 75643] New: Please make pavucontrol have a default device option like gnome-volume-control

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75643

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 75643
                CC: lennart at poettering.net
          Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Please make pavucontrol have a default device option
                    like gnome-volume-control
        QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: nw9165-3201 at yahoo.com
          Hardware: All
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: pavucontrol
           Product: PulseAudio

Hello,

I came across the following tutorial:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/install-pulseaudio-with-built-in-system.html

which explains how to use qpaeq, the built-in system wide equalizer of
PulseAudio.

Well, as described in that tutorial and as can be seen in the following
picture:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r3IabLvI3cM/UUBsE6PguEI/AAAAAAAAOjM/joUZhqyId0c/s1600/sound-settings.png

one must select "FFT based equalizer on..." as the default output device to
make qpaeq work.

As you can see in the picture, this can be done easily in gnome-volume-control,
as it has a "Play sound through" option on the "Output" tab, where you simply
click on the device you want to have sound play through (default output
device).

However, I wanted to do the same in Lubuntu.

Lubuntu does not come with PulseAudio installed by default. So i installed it.

Lubuntu also does not come with gnome-volume-control, as it is using LXDE.

GNOME, Unity, Cinnamon, MATE and so on do have the gnome-volume-control (or
forks of it). But LXDE and Xfce for example do not have the
gnome-volume-control (AFAIK).

So, I installed pavucontrol on Lubuntu and thought it could act as an
alternative for gnome-volume-control...

However, in pavucontrol, I could not find an option to choose the default
output device.

So, i digged a little further and finally came up with the following page:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/DefaultDevice/

Among other things, the page mentions the following:

"[...]

If you, for example, plug in a new sound card and want it to be the default
device from now on, you can tell PulseAudio to change the fallback sink to the
new sound card, but that will only have effect on programs that PulseAudio
hasn't seen before. For this particular use case the current (as of 2010-01-23)
state-of-the-art method to move everything to the new sound card is to use
gnome-volume-control version 2.28, which modifies the stream-restore database
when you set some device as the default

[...]"

Now, I am really wondering: Why is gnome-volume-control the state-of-the-art
method to do this? Why not pavucontrol?

Why is that functionality in gnome-volume-control but not in pavucontrol?

Can't you just make pavucontrol have the same functionality?

It would be much appreciated.

Regards

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