ToggleAudio Extension

Settings

How to get to the setting page

set your headphone and speaker devices in preferences

then you can switch between those devices with a click of a button:

(you can see the switch between the audio sources in the volume output device window above called Tonausgang here)

Note: the devices for headphone and speaker must be two separated devices, and not a shared one with different ports (like build in Speaker/Headphone devices).

In that case only one device can be seen in the preference selection window.

With the Show Indicator switch you can also control if you want to show a system icon tray or not. If true the icon is shown.

Note

NEW: now you can enable a second device e.g. a remote headphone and toggle between headphone and remote headphone too If you don't like this feature don't enable it and it should behave like before! :>

Hotkeys

You can also use hotkeys for:

• toggle Speaker/ Headphone
  • default: ctrl+super+T
• select Speaker
  • default: ctrl+super+S
• select Headphone
  • default: ctrl+super+H
• toggle Headphone / Remote Headphone (or second Headphone)

  • this is only visible when the feature is activated

    default: ctrl+super+R

You can enable those in the settings:

Note

if you want to change the hotkeys, you need to do those in gsettings using gsettings

the path is: /org/gnome/shell/extensions/toggle-audio/

Follow the instructions on the wiki

Icon Style

You can control whether you want to use colorful or symbolic monochrome icons.

PS: You can even customize the used icons if you want

Contribution especially for issues

Please don't use ai to write the issues. Especially if they are rather general or even contain errors. Thank you for understanding. Why? - I want to talk to real people and talk about issues, not a standard formatted answer without any empathy in it.

Tested on

with 2 audio devices:

• Gnome 50:

  • CachyOS

• Gnome 49:

  • CachyOS

• Gnome 48:

  • Fedora 42
  • CachyOS

• Gnome 47:

  • EndeavourOS Linux
  • Nobara

• Gnome 46:

  • Ubuntu 24.04 (hardware)

• Gnome 45:

  • Ubuntu 23.10 (VM)
  • Nobara 39

Next Version

Ideas:

• Disable Toggle Button as long Connection is not possible instead just queuing

Now with multi-lang-support

Contribution of translations files are appreciated.

Please file an issue or PR for that.

Already implemented translations

• English
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian

Thanks and credit to

• audio-selector@harald65.simon.gmail.com

• quicksettings-audio-devices-hider@marcinjahn.com

• mediacontrols@cliffniff.github.com

their code helped me to understand Gvc.MixerControl better.

Also thanks to #extensions:gnome.org (Matrix) and their people for helping me :)

Support

If you like my work and want to support me, then this is the way:

• kofi

Many Thanks ♥