pactl
Control a running PulseAudio sound server.
More information: https://manned.org/pactl.
- 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