Scenario: I plug in the headphone in my pc (not laptop - no autosensing headphone jacket) I need to manually reroute the playing audio application (eg youtube) from the usb speakers to the headphone. I want to use the plasma "audio volume" widget to change the playback stream in the "Applications" tab to a certain device (one of these visible in the "Devices" tab) I try to click the menu on the right of the playback stream but this does not offer an opportunity to route the stream to a certain device. I am now stuck - have to resort to pavucontrol, which of course offers this functionality. (as does Linux Mint which I used until a few weeks ago) Distro: kubuntu 18.04 I searched on +audio +stream +device before entering this bug report and could not find a suitable one yet. Still I think one must already exist ... Please feel free to mark this one a duplicate in that case. ps I found out via a web search that you can long-click the icon to the left of the Application, which then opens up the devices tab, after which you can drop on a certain device. I think this is not what we want: not discoverable, not in line with other solutions out there. Thanks! John van Spaandonk
One issue per bug report, please. See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting#One_issue_per_bug_report First issue: you need to turn on "Automatically switch all running streams when a new output becomes available", which is located in System Settings > Multimedia > Audio Volume > Advanced. However keep in mind that this will disable some functionality in the Audio and Video KCM. See Bug 392117 and Bug 392103. Second issue: Click on the three-bar hamburger menu button on the left side and the option is there. If you don't see it, your Plasma version may be too old.