rofi-sound-output-chooser


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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Outputs have spaces in them, so let's make \n the IFS
IFS=$'\n'

# Menu will have a quit option, though you could just escape
if [ "$*" = "quit" ]
then
    exit 0
fi


# An option was passed, so let's check it
if [ "$@" ]
then
    # the output from the selection will be the desciption.  Save that for alerts
    desc="$*"
    # Figure out what the device name is based on the description passed
    device=$(pactl list sinks|grep -C2 -F "Description: $desc"|grep Name|cut -d: -f2|xargs)
    # Try to set the default to the device chosen
    if pactl set-default-sink "$device"
    then
        # if it worked, alert the user
        dunstify -t 2000 -r 2 -u low "Activated: $desc"
    else
        # didn't work, critically alert the user
        dunstify -t 2000 -r 2 -u critical "Error activating $desc"
    fi
else
    echo -en "\x00prompt\x1fSelect Output\n"
    # Get the list of outputs based on the description, which is what makes sense to a human
    # and is what we want to show in the menu
    for x in $(pactl list sinks | grep -ie "description:"|cut -d: -f2|sort)
    do
        # outputs with cut may have spaces, so use empty xargs to remove them, and output that to the rofi list
        echo "$x"|xargs
    done
    echo "quit"
fi