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Reset settings of gnome-control-center sound program

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I have Ubuntu 13.10 installed on my notebook. I have a problem only with skype. When it plays a notification sound, the program is muted on gnome sound settings (as seen in the screenshot). But the phonecall is OK. Only the notifications sounds are muted.

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How can I reset the settings to default configurations? I can't use the mouse to adjust thee volume level of Skype because the notification is very quick, and the sound bar level also disappears quickly (whenever I am able to adjust, the program never remembers the setting).

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answered 2 Years ago quivedge · Accepted Answer

To unmute an audio sink from command line (which can then be scripted to a keyboard shortcut or a .desktop launcher) we can issue:

pacmd set-sink-mute [index|name] 0

The sink index or name for above command can be seen from the output of

pacmd list-sinks



Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.

>>> 2 sink(s) available.

* index: 0

    name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo>

[...]

The presently active default sink index is marked with an asterix in case you have more than one sink.

In case the sinks are not loaded in the same order it is preferable to use the sink name rather than the index because the latter may change.

In case application or device settings were stored in the PulseAudio database we can reset to defaults by deleting the directories ~/.pulse and ~/.config/pulse (if present).