A replacement for the deprecated padevchooser.
pasystray allows setting the default PulseAudio source/sink and moving streams on the fly between sources/sinks without restarting the client applications.
- switch default sink/source
- move playback/record stream to a different sink/source on the fly
- detect pulseaudio instances on the network with avahi
- set X property PULSE_SERVER (like padevchooser's "set default server")
- adjust volume/toggle mute of sinks/sources and playback/record streams
- rename devices (pulseaudio must have module-device-manager loaded)
To detect remote sinks/sources you need to enable module-zeroconf-discover on the local PulseAudio instance and module-zeroconf-publish on the remote side.
To control a different server than the local instance, run pasystray as:
$ PULSE_SERVER=remote_host pasystrayover status icon:
- left/right-click: open menu
- ctrl + left-click: start pavucontrol
- middle-click / alt + left-click: toggle mute default sink
- ctrl + middle-click / ctrl + alt + left-click: toggle mute default source
- scroll up/down: adjust the default sink volume
- ctrl + scroll: adjust the default source volume
over source/sink:
- scroll up/down: adjust the volume of respective stream
- left-click: set as default sink/source
- middle-click / alt + left-click: toggle mute
- right-click: open menu to rename source/sink
over playback/record stream:
- scroll up/down: adjust the volume of respective stream
- middle-click: toggle mute
If the pasystray icon is not displayed in your Unity system tray, you will have to whitelist it. Read this for instructions: http://askubuntu.com/questions/30742/how-do-i-access-and-enable-more-icons-to-be-in-the-system-tray
For Ubuntu 13.04 and above, AppIndicator is mandatory. Unfortunately, the ctrl + click / ctrl + scroll bindings don't work with AppIndicator.