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Section: sound

pactl

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

All systems: curl cmd.cat/pactl.sh
Debian: apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Ubuntu: apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Alpine: apk add pulseaudio-utils
Arch Linux: pacman -S libpulse
Kali Linux: apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
CentOS: yum install pulseaudio-utils
Fedora: dnf install pulseaudio-utils
Windows (WSL2): sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Raspbian: apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Dockerfile: dockerfile.run/pactl
Docker: docker run cmd.cat/pactl pactl powered by Commando

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