My desktop has a built-in speaker inside the tower, and it's connected to my monitor via HDMI. It's really annoying that the system defaults the speaker to the built-in one and I have to manually change the Sound settings. Is there any way to force HDMI as default device or just disable the built-in?
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This might help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/854055/switch-between-internal-and-hdmi-speakers-automatically/854079#854079 If not there are other methods. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jan 23 '18 at 00:44
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To set default for pulseaudio playback
Use command:
pactl list sinks | grep Name
to get Pulseaudio names of playback sinks
Use the name of your HDMI sink in this command to set it as default:
pacmd set-default-sink <Name>
To check Pulseaudio default sink setting:
cat ~/.config/pulse/*default-sink
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I set default sink to the hdmi one, however when I boot up today it still falls back to built in analog audio. Thanks – cf1 Jan 25 '18 at 02:17