[pulseaudio-discuss] Sink for event sounds? WAS: paplay - sound roles?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 05.01.10 14:56, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:

> 
> 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 05/01/10 14:49 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Tue, 29.12.09 08:44, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> >>>> A follow-up on this, how do I move event sounds to a different sink? For
> >>>> other streams I simply use pavucontrol, but it doesn't seem that there's
> >>>> any selector for the "System Sounds" item. It just selects the
> >>>> 'normal' (laptop sound card output) and I can't figure a way to move it
> >>>> to my BT headset without turning the sound card output off.
> >>>
> >>> I believe that libcanberra always ensures that event sounds are played
> >>> on the default sink. Not sure of the inner workings there nor of whether
> >>> it should be a stream-restore job (it's capable of routing e.g. all
> >>> event sounds to a given sink, overriding (IIRC) the per-application
> >>> device rules.
> >>
> >> Hmm, is it then impossible to move event sounds? Doesn't seem like a
> >> good way to do it.
> > 
> > You can. Event sounds are streams like any other. Given how short they
> > are it might be hard to be quick enough though to move them.
> 
> Well event sounds are now hidden in pavucontrol.... so moving is
> tricky... cmd line tools are hard to use for this when time is of the
> essence!

Hmm, I though it is actually visible if you use that dropdown on the
lower right... Are we really hiding it unconditionally? If so, that
seems like a poor choice I think.

> I've been meaning to look into why canberra believes them to be
> disabled... My initial stab in the dark is some sort of gconf borkage,
> but not sure.

We get that value from an XSETTING that gnome-settings-daemon
initializes from gconf.

Lennart

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