Bug 460856

Summary:	Keyboard shortcuts to activate different devices
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma-pa	Reporter:	Reuben <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, nowrep, sitter
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Reuben 2022-10-22 17:36:15 UTC

SUMMARY

Please add the ability to map devices to keyboard shortcuts. I'd like to be able to switch between speakers and headset without having to go to system tray.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-21-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 30.8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 530
Manufacturer: MSI
Product Name: MS-7978
System Version: 1.0

Comment 1 ratijas 2022-10-24 18:11:39 UTC

Interesting feature request.

For now you could write a script which tells pulse-audio / pipewire to use some particular output as default, and bind a global shortcut to that script (System Settings -> Shortcuts -> Add Application)

Comment 2 Harald Sitter 2024-10-03 23:25:23 UTC

Seems unfortunately out of scope for the default feature set. I think you really just want to script this using pactl.