SUMMARY Just like pavucontrol the applet and the settings menu only show the device names and not the sink names. This can be confusing, if you have multiple devices of the same type. SOFTWARE VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.100.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 Kernel Version: 6.0.9-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Graphics Processor: NVIDIA Pulseaudio: 16.1-3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION See also: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/-/issues/136
Can you attach a screenshot that shows the issue?
Created attachment 154209 [details] Pulseaudio applet You can see multiple "null-sinks", and I gave them specific names, but the names are not shown.
Why can't you give them descriptions?
(In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #3) > Why can't you give them descriptions? 1. It works, when I set "sink_properties=device.description=null-name1" then "null-name1" is shown instead of the device name. So thx for the workaround. 2. To the "why" part, why should I assume that setting the description will change the name? This is not intuitive.
Yeah, that's just how pulseaudio is. name is a unique identifier. description is the actual pretty string that gets displayed