ToggleAudio Extension

Settings

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

Tested on

with 2 audio devices:

• 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

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

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 ♥