If you connect USB headphones, they should become the primary sound output, which is the device that the sound menu controls. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#primary-output> If that is not happening, please report a bug on the pulseaudio package.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-sound in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079810 Title: indicator-sound under XFCE: No way to change device Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: When using indicator-sound under XFCE, there is no discernable way for a user to change the device whose volume it represents/controls. If you select 'Preferences', as you would to make this change when using Unity, you are taken to pavucontrol - which has no way to select a device for the control. To manually work around this, you must issue 'sudo gnome-control- center sound' (The sound, bluetooth, and other control center apps don't appear to be visible/accessible without sudo) and change the device. Either indicator-sound should dynamically iterate the devices and give you a chance to select them from its context menu, or pavucontrol needs a way to to change the device, or preferences should fire off the equivalent of 'sudo gnome-control-center sound' (preferably in a way that the user doesn't have to enter their password just to get to the sound preferences). I think the first of the three options is the best, because you wouldn't even need to show the devices in the menu if there were only one - and it would speed up access for people with multiple devices not only under XFCE but under Unity as well. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/1079810/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
