So I did look at those options, but disabling them did not provide the experience I was looking for, and required me to do as much or more manual switching of audio devices.
To be clear, I don't want to disable the functionality that these options provide. I am happy with the audio switching to hotplug devices (such as my headphones) automatically when they connect, and I'm happy with the audio switching to new ports as well. This bug is with the behavior of switching _back_ to the original device when a hotplug device disconnects. It should remember the original device, or at least allow me to set a default to switch back to, instead of deciding for itself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921766 Title: Output device not remembered after connecting/disconnecting another Status in PulseAudio: Unknown Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu 20.10 running pulseaudio version 13.99.2 is my daily driver for development work. I run it on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 8th Generation connected to dual monitors via a Lenovo dock. Both monitors are capable of outputting sound via HDMI. I use bluetooth headphones frequently with my Ubuntu 20.10 system, but I don't leave them on -- I turn them on and off as needed for Zoom calls. When I'm not on a call, however, I prefer to use my laptop's speakers for audio -- not my monitor speakers. Turning the bluetooth headphones on works fine, they connect and pulseaudio correctly identifies the new connection and switches to the headphones as the audio device. However, when I turn the headphones off, pulseaudio always selects an HDMI audio device as the sound device to use, not the internal speaker device that I was using prior to turning on the headphones. I must manually open Sound Settings and select the speaker device every time I turn my headphones off. My expectation is that the device I was using prior to connecting the headphones is remembered and switched back to by default after I disconnect my bluetooth headphones. I've tried using the pavucontrol app to disable the HDMI audio devices, but the hardware device disable settings are not granular enough to let me target the HDMI devices independently of the speaker device. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/1921766/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
