[arch-general] Muting internal speakers

[Chris Sakalis]

Hello,
pulseaudio[1] has that functionality. You should check it out. On KDE
, Kmix supports pulseaudio and I am pretty sure it support auto
switching too.

Regards,
--Chris Sakalis

[1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pulseaudio

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Eric Ryan Jones
<eric at thetechnojesus.com> wrote:
> Arch always did that automatically for me.  I do know that you can set up defaults and fallbacks in KDE just like in Windows.  I'm not sure about GNOME, though, as I have used KDE for a while.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arch-general-bounces at archlinux.org [mailto:arch-general-bounces at archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Nelson Marambio
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:52 PM
> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
> Subject: [arch-general] Muting internal speakers
>
> Since the change from Win 7 to Arch there is just one function I really miss up to now. Perhaps someone of you can help me out.
>
> Is it possible that Arch deactivates the internal speakers of my laptop when I plug in my USB-headset and turn input / output to this ?
>
> In Windows I could define the USB headset as default for in-/output so Win made a fallback to internal speakers only when I plugged out the headset again.
>
> It would be really great if Arch was that comfortable too. I know in GNOME there are just two clicks to do for switching to another audio hardware but ... :D
>
> Warm regards,
> Nelson.
>