[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] man: unify pactl and pacmd suspend command documentation
Tanu Kaskinen
tanuk at iki.fi
Sun Apr 8 10:23:11 UTC 2018
The suspend-sink and suspend-source documentation for pacmd was quite
terse, so I copied the more complete documentation from pactl. I
couldn't resist doing some other minor edits along the way too.
Bug-link: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105907
---
man/pactl.1.xml.in | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
man/pulse-cli-syntax.5.xml.in | 15 ++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/pactl.1.xml.in b/man/pactl.1.xml.in
index 39569b6bb..ee8fd51ea 100644
--- a/man/pactl.1.xml.in
+++ b/man/pactl.1.xml.in
@@ -129,27 +129,27 @@ License along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
</option>
<option>
- <p><opt>suspend-sink</opt> <arg>SINK</arg> <arg>1|0</arg></p>
+ <p><opt>suspend-sink</opt> <arg>SINK</arg> <arg>true|false</arg></p>
<optdesc><p>Suspend or resume the specified sink (which may be
- specified either by its symbolic name, or by its numeric index),
- depending whether 1 (suspend) or 0 (resume) is passed as last
- argument. Suspending a sink will pause all playback. Depending
- on the module implementing the sink this might have the effect
- that the underlying device is closed, making it available for
- other applications to use. The exact behaviour depends on the
- module.</p></optdesc>
+ specified either by its name or index), depending whether true
+ (suspend) or false (resume) is passed as last argument. Suspending
+ a sink will pause all playback. Depending on the module implementing
+ the sink this might have the effect that the underlying device is
+ closed, making it available for other applications to use. The exact
+ behaviour depends on the module.
+ </p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
- <p><opt>suspend-source</opt> <arg>SOURCE</arg> <arg>1|0</arg></p>
+ <p><opt>suspend-source</opt> <arg>SOURCE</arg> <arg>true|false</arg></p>
<optdesc><p>Suspend or resume the specified source (which may be
- specified either by its symbolic name, or by its numeric index),
- depending whether 1 (suspend) or 0 (resume) is passed as last
- argument. Suspending a source will pause all
- capturing. Depending on the module implementing the source this
- might have the effect that the underlying device is closed,
- making it available for other applications to use. The exact
- behaviour depends on the module.</p></optdesc>
+ specified either by its name or index), depending whether true
+ (suspend) or false (resume) is passed as last argument. Suspending
+ a source will pause all capturing. Depending on the module implementing
+ the source this might have the effect that the underlying device is
+ closed, making it available for other applications to use. The exact
+ behaviour depends on the module.
+ </p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
diff --git a/man/pulse-cli-syntax.5.xml.in b/man/pulse-cli-syntax.5.xml.in
index 0a0fabaf0..42cd73a63 100644
--- a/man/pulse-cli-syntax.5.xml.in
+++ b/man/pulse-cli-syntax.5.xml.in
@@ -163,9 +163,18 @@ License along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
</option>
<option>
- <p><opt>suspend-sink|suspend-source</opt> <arg>index|name</arg> <arg>boolean</arg></p>
- <optdesc><p>Suspend (i.e. disconnect from the underlying hardware) a sink
- (resp. source).</p></optdesc>
+ <p><opt>suspend-sink|suspend-source</opt> <arg>name|index</arg>
+ <arg>true|false</arg>
+ </p>
+ <optdesc><p>Suspend or resume the specified sink or source (which may be
+ specified either by its name or index), depending whether true
+ (suspend) or false (resume) is passed as last argument. Suspending
+ a sink will pause all playback and suspending a source will pause all
+ capturing. Depending on the module implementing the sink or source this
+ might have the effect that the underlying device is closed, making it
+ available for other applications to use. The exact behaviour depends on
+ the module.
+ </p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
--
2.16.2
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