totalhorse.blogg.se - Switching between headphones and speakers

Once the application is installed you can start it and then check it in your notification area where you can see all input and output devices(after click in the context menu) and switch them as needed. Sudo apt-get install indicator-sound-switcher The optimal way to install this application is by using the PPA by these commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:yktooo/ppa

Installation from the PPA (recommended).

You can find more information about the application on here: Special application for Ubuntu was created with one purpose - to change quickly the output device of your system while the playback is active. Step #2: Application Sound Switcher Indicator Now the sound device can be change quickly without extra clicks.

Keyboard bindings - press the key which is going to call the program.

add command - cinnamon-settings sound (mate-volume-control for MATE).

Custom shortcuts - select it from the Categories.

In order to create a special shortcut for your Sound program you can follow next steps:

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Below you can find several options - of multimedia keyboards which are not expensive(except the last one and highly depending on where do you live): For mouse and keyboard I prefer to get the optimal for my needs and price. The keyboard is Deluxe k5015 which is old one and not available anymore:īut this way works with any keyboard and key you like to use. In my case the keyboard includes 15 multimedia buttons - one of them will be used for this purpose - which is quite handy for me. My preferable way to switch outputs is by adding new keyboard shortcut which displays the Sound application. So in this article you can find 3 different ways to switch quickly the sound output device and one bonus. The solutions described in the article should work for Linux Mint and Ubuntu. The natural way which I was doing - require too many clicks and it's slow (open the Sound application from the menu or from the panel applet). In my case I have even more output devices for sound: HDMI, two headphone sets and speakers.

Unfortunately there isn't quick way to achieve this by using Linux Mint GUI. A common task for my working day on Linux Mint is switching between headphones and speakers.