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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 19/10/09 11:10 did gyre and gimble:
> 2009/10/19 Leszek Koltunski <leszek at koltunski.pl>:
>> 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".
> 
> It looks like PULSE_SINK environment variable is exactly what you need, see:
> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ#WhatenvironmentvariablesdoesPulseAudiocareabout

As noted in my reply, the x11 property is even better :)

Col

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