On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:26 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> This one might be more of a GNOME3 question. I'm running the RHEL7 >> beta on a laptop where I used to run windows xp. It's a Dell >> Latitude w/docking station and the dock has a coax/digital sound >> output. On windows, it would automatically switch to the analog >> headphone jack if I plugged headphones in. With linux there is a >> widget in the top bar on GNOME that has the volume control and a >> 'sound settings' option that I can open and pick digital or headphone >> output but it has to be done manually. Is there any way to get the >> windows behavior of using headphone output whenever they are plugged >> in? >> > > While I can't speak for RHEL7, the expected behavior is seen when using > GNOME3 under Fedora. > > When I plug in my headphones to the 3.5mm jack, a small headphone icon > shows up to the right of the speaker icon. > Running the RC now - I get the headphone icon if I am already switched to analog and the expanded sound settings window shows 'speakers' before I plug in. The larger picture switches to headphones too. And if I am switched to headphones and remove the headphone jack it auto-switches to digital output (spdif). The part that still seems missing is that if it is on spdif and I plug the headphones in, nothing happens. It is sort of an odd setup where the spdif jack is in a docking station, but windows did the auto-switch both directions. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com