No, this isn't meant as flame bait. What Pulseaudio control panel do you recommend? In particular, I want to be able to easily switch between my USB sound card and my onboard sound card.

If you're wondering where my interest in Pulseaudio is coming from, it's this. I'm currently using a USB DAC with no mic input. However, I also want to use a headset to chat with my friends over Skype while we play Torchlight 2. A headset is a headphone and a mic, and the mic part needs a mic input to plug into. With my setup, that would mean the mic input in my motherboard's onboard sound card. So I want to use Pulseaudio to switch to my onboard soundcard for the gaming sessions and to the USB sound card for everything else.

I like pavucontrol the best.

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Pavucontrol has worked for me on other PA distros. Let me swap between soundcards on my desktop pretty easy.

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pavucontrol works for me on slackware-current (i use pulseaudio from slackbiulds.org and do also rebuild alsa-plugins)

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I never understood what alsa-plugins do after pulseaudio installed.
You can you tell for me please?

If you are using xfce and pulseaudio, i recommend you remove xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed and install this
http://www.slackbuilds.org/cgit/slac.../?id=7d47e18e2
ps: Maintained by me :-)

and off course PavuControl what depends
1.1-libsigc++
1.2-glibmm
1.3-cairomm
1.4-pangomm
1.5-atkmm
1.6-gtkmm (if you add inside pavucontrol.SlackBuild) --disable-gtk3
or
1.7-gtkmm3 (if you dont modify anything, auto use gtk3)

Works fine.

You need alsa-plugins to make all alsa clients that don't have native support for pulseaudio connect to pulseaudio (instead of bypassing it).

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You need alsa-plugins installed before you can do this:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0/#post3881158

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I would like to throw paprefs and pacmd/pactl in the mix in the mix for the more advanced stuff, like network audio-sinks.

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