Re:Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking
by md5wasp on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @09:49PM
(#23636017)
This is why my "gamer" headphones can use both profiles simultaneously! The game/music/media audio comes through the headphone profile, and chat audio comes through the headset profile. There's even the ability to change the volume-per-logical-device (chatmix).
Agree with you that I never got it working consistently in Linux. Just getting normal BT headphones to use A2DP rather than HSP was always a bit tricky. I've not dared try my gamer headphones...
Re:Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking
by fartcannon on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @07:07PM
(#23634898)
Perhaps in yours, but my Linux desktop always uses the proper sound settings, even though I switch constantly between bluetoith headphones and speakers. So maybe YMMV?
Re:Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking
by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:36PM
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It is definitely broken for years, search for hsphfpd vs ofono story. I.e. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issue...
It used to work much better in the bluez4 era, about a decade ago, than it does now.
Do note these are Bluetooth profiles. This is irrelevant to ouput device switching.
As of today I think no operating system performs this switch correctly. It's been broken in desktop Linux for a couple years now.