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samrob85

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Registered: 2017-07-23

Posts: 31

Keyboard shortcut to change audio output

I am trying to have two keyboard shortcuts which would allow me to change the default audio output between two outputs.

I can change it in terminal using:
pacmd list-sink-inputs|awk '/ pri+indargex: /{ nt $2}'|xs -n1 --replace="PLAYBACK" pacmd move-sink-input PLAYBACK 1
pacmd list-sink-inputs|awk '/ pri+indargex: /{ nt $2}'|xs -n1 --replace="PLAYBACK" pacmd move-sink-input PLAYBACK 4

For the two outputs

I tried putting this into the keyboard shortcut section in gnome but it did not work, but the key binding I used was available as when I changed the command to gnome-terminal it opened the terminal

What am I doing wrong?

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Keyboard shortcut to change audio output

I have found that gnome's keyboard shortcuts isn't great at parsing complex commands.

If nothing else works, try putting each command to a script, and executing the script via shortcuts.