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Peak meters are shown in the Recording/Playback tabs

Submitted by Matthias Urlichs

Assigned to pul..@..op.org

Link to original bug (#103535)

Description

pavucontrol opens a peak meter for every input and output device, no matter whether the device panel in question is open or not.

I'm trying to build a multi-station PA system. pavucontrol displays all of these streams in the Playback and/or Recording panels. IMHO these streams should be marked so that they are not displayed by default. As it is it's almost impossible to find the one stream I'm actually interested in among the large number of peak meters. The virtual vs. hardware distinction doesn't help here, obviously.

Secondary problems:

  • the recording stream's media name ("Peak meter") isn't displayed in pavucontrol

  • the stream's originator (i.e. the bold part) is named "pulseaudio" instead of "pavucontrol" or _"Volume control".

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