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[Solved] How to make Pulseaudio put microphone on zero always on Linux ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've looked at suggestions on StackExchange and made some changes to files in /etc but after each login or reboot it is up to 100 % again in pavucontrol. On this computer I hardly ever use the speakers, and I want the microphone muted, always, so I guess I could even block list a few kernel modules for sound (which ones ?). But why can a desktop user not easily turn volume to zero, forever ?

Edit : Thanks all. It was not StackExchange but on AskUbuntu from where I tried some suggestions. I also tried muting audio in Pavucontrol but that didn't help between logouts and logins. Now I have set the default audio device in Pavucontrol to Dummy, and that works. I can still play sound from a video in VLC, but the microphone keeps muted.

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[–] drem@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think this should work (I haven't tested it):

make a new file called default (.) pa in the pulseaudio congfig folder (.config/pulse)

this will mute source_name (replace source_name with your source name):

#include this config file
.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
set-source-mute source_name true

run this command to list source names:

pactl list short sources