pactl

all

Control a running PulseAudio sound server.

Examples (6)

Show information about the sound server

pactl info

List all sinks (or other types - sinks are outputs and sink-inputs are active audio streams)

pactl list sinks short

Change the default sink (output) to 1 (the number can be retrieved via the `list` subcommand)

pactl set-default-sink 1

Move sink-input 627 to sink 1

pactl move-sink-input 627 1

Set the volume of sink 1 to 75%

pactl set-sink-volume 1 0.75

Toggle mute on the default sink (using the special name `@DEFAULT_SINK@`)

pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle