I’ve recently switched my primary PC to Linux (Specifically POP_OS). Overall the experience has been incredible. Far less difficult than I feared.
One area that has been a constant annoyance is sound device management. The abilities to independently set volumes by program, and switch between sound devices easily (as opposed to going into settings every time) have eluded me. Perhaps I’m just missing something, but my assumption is that there’s a packaged solution for this. I’ve looked around and seen a few recommendations for pavucontrol, but wanted to check here and see what other people use and why. I’m open to suggestions.
pavucontrolprobably the best option given your distro. Go with that.pavucontrol does seem to work well. Just need to choose an easier way to switch now. Thank you kindly.
KDE’s default audio widget is so good, you can congifure your audio devices and mic individually but also on a per app basis, but I suppose pop os doesn’t use kde
I use Pop and have a Gnome extension that helps with this. I’m not at home now and I can’t remember the name but I can report back later.
Doing a quick search on this gave me “Application Volume Mixer” but I don’t think this is the exact extension I have.
Okay the extension I have is called “Sound Input & Output Device Chooser.” I think that if you install this and the Other extension above your problem will be solved.
Hah, what a novel name, thank you.
As Chais mentioned use that, but also Gnome has volume per app in sound settings I believe…once the app is playing sound.
I think that it does as of gnome 43+. Oddly enough Pop_OS ships with gnome 42.5. Which seems to have been the issue.
This is what I use for switching: https://pastebin.com/J5VT03eq
It usespactl(should work with both Pulse andpipewire-pulse) and KDialog to list available sinks.Ohh what a neat solution, thank you!
