Hello, I've been able to fix something that has been driving me crazy for days and wanted to share it with you.
I've a audio device that expose 2 different ports in Pulseaudio, Speaker and Headphone : ports: analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown) properties: device.icon_name = "audio-speakers" analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown) properties: device.icon_name = "audio-headphones" active port: <analog-output-headphones> Unfortunately, this audio device itself does not have a Speaker 3.5mm jack, but only a Headphone 3.5mm jack. Hence the default priority being higher for the Speaker port, a new user connected to this workstation will always miss sound and need to change the active port to be the Headphones manually. Following is how I fixed this problem. It's probably not the best way to do things, but my knowledge is limited in this subject, and it just works ! I would love to receive some feedback from the experts though. First, I've created a udev rule to match my audio device and use a user-defined pulseaudio profile SUBSYSTEM!="sound", GOTO="pulseaudio_end" ACTION!="change", GOTO="pulseaudio_end" KERNEL!="card*", GOTO="pulseaudio_end" ATTRS{vendor}=="0x6549", ATTRS{device}=="0x2200", ENV{PULSE_PROFILE_SET}="teradici.conf" LABEL="pulseaudio_end" Then, I created this user-defined profile, *teradici.conf*, by copying */usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/default.conf *and removing *analog-output-speaker* from the *paths-output*. --- default.conf 2020-11-23 17:33:37.000000000 +0100 +++ teradici.conf 2023-04-12 09:01:03.345338558 +0200 @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ [Mapping analog-stereo] device-strings = front:%f channel-map = left,right -paths-output = analog-output analog-output-lineout analog-output-speaker analog-output-headphones analog-output-headphones-2 +paths-output = analog-output analog-output-lineout analog-output-headphones analog-output-headphones-2 paths-input = analog-input-front-mic analog-input-rear-mic analog-input-internal-mic analog-input-dock-mic analog-input analog-input-mic analog-input-linein analog-input-aux analog-input-video analog-input-tvtuner analog-input-fm analog-input-mic-line analog-input-headphone-mic analog-input-headset-mic priority = 15 After a reboot, this audio device no longer exposes the "missing" Speaker port and the Headphones port is always selected. Cheers,