pavucontrol(1)

A volume control for the PulseAudio sound server

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Summary

pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control) is a graphical mixer for the PulseAudio sound server. Unlike a classic mixer, it lets you set the volume of each hardware device and each individual playback or recording stream separately, and move a running stream to a different output without interrupting playback. Launch it when you need fine-grained, per-application audio control on a Linux desktop.

Tip: Use the Playback tab to move a specific app's audio to another output device on the fly, which is handy for switching one program between speakers and headphones.

Description

PAVUCONTROL

NAME

pavucontrol - A volume control for the PulseAudio sound server

SYNOPSIS

pavucontrol

DESCRIPTION

A simple volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately. It also allows you to redirect a playback stream to another output device without interrupting playback.

OPTIONS

-t, --tab NUMBER

Select tab NUMBER on load

SEE ALSO

pulseaudio(1), pavumeter(1), padevchooser(1)

RESOURCES

Homepage: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavucontrol/

PulseAudio web site: http://pulseaudio.org/

AUTHOR

Written by Lennart Poettering <mzcnihpbageby@0pointer.de>

DOCUMENTATION

Documentation by CJ van den Berg <cj@vdbonline.com>.

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2006 Lennart Poettering. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Examples

pavucontrol

Open the PulseAudio volume control window.

pavucontrol --tab 2

Launch with a specific tab selected using --tab (-t) NUMBER.

pavucontrol &

Start it in the background from a terminal so the shell stays free.

See Also