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RobinJ

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From: Belgium, Europe

Registered: 2012-01-05

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Output device setting does not apply to all applications

I'm running Arch with Gnome (PulseAudio). Last week I installed a random "audio output switcher" Gnome extension (why is this not part of Gnome itself?) and switched the output to HDMI because I wanted to watch a movie on my other screen. Switching back did not work so I went into the Gnome settings to switch back and got rid of the crappy extension.

The next day, I went to play some games. I didn't get any sound out of them. It took me a while to cop on to what had happened. I opened up `pavucontrol` and noticed that each application had an application-specific setting setting their output to HDMI. Now, every time I open an application, I have to specifically go into `pavucontrol` and pick the desired output device (even when HDMI is not connected).

I've tried removing my `~/.config/pulse` folder, but to no avail. Does anyone have any idea how I can reset this ridiculously broken audio system's settings so that my output device can once more be controlled for the whole desktop and not for every individual application?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Output device setting does not apply to all applications

Check if you have something in ~/.pulse instead, that's where stream tables and the like are usually stored.

As for whether GNOME itself has something like this, I'm fairly certain that the default gnome-sound utility can do this. Not from the widget but from the "Advanced" dialog, you can click on the corresponding output and all current and future streams should be switched to what you selected there. Been a while since I used that though, might have changed in the meantime.

RobinJ

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From: Belgium, Europe

Registered: 2012-01-05

Posts: 21

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Re: Output device setting does not apply to all applications

Check if you have something in ~/.pulse instead, that's where stream tables and the like are usually stored.

As for whether GNOME itself has something like this, I'm fairly certain that the default gnome-sound utility can do this. Not from the widget but from the "Advanced" dialog, you can click on the corresponding output and all current and future streams should be switched to what you selected there. Been a while since I used that though, might have changed in the meantime.

Nope, there's no `~/.pulse` folder.
That's the thing. All outputs aren't being switched.