Switching between speakers and headphones

#SWITCHING BETWEEN SPEAKERS AND HEADPHONES INSTALL#

#SWITCHING BETWEEN SPEAKERS AND HEADPHONES INSTALL#

To switch between ports you can use Gnome or Plasma sound mixer, or install appropriate desktop extension. They mute each other, so you can switch to headphones and this will mute Line Out, and vice versa. Now you have two separate ports on the same sink in pulseaudio. Open alsamixer: alsamixer -c0 or alsamixer -c1 Like Pulseaudio, Alsa itself cuts off speakers when headphones are plugged in.

On some systems you may also need to disable Front by adding this snippet: Д¤. We need to completely cut off Line Out when we use headphones.Д®dit: /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/nfДЄdd this snippet to the end of the file: Add this snippet to the end of the file: ДЈ. By default, Line Out's volume controlled only by Master, and not by Line Out slider itself. If you're using the jacks on the front of your computer's case change instead. We tell pulseaudio that headphones are always plugged in.Д®dit: /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/nf To achieve this, you should directly edit Pulseaudio mixer's configuration. This is extremely useful if you want to remap Realtek's jacks to have, say, Rear Green for headphones and Blue for speakers (with the help of hdajackretask from alsa-tools). What we want is to have Headphone and Line Out sliders working separately and at the same time. You can observe this behavior in alsamixer. Having both speakers and headphones plugged in and switching in software on-the-flyД«y design, Pulseaudio automatically turns off Line Out when headphones are plugged in and uses Headphone slider instead.

Switching between speakers and headphones