Not sure what exact scenario you're referring to with "for a refresh/replay".

Surely, after I've switched to another VT and back, that command alone is not enough to have audio coming from a YouTube tab in qutebrowser.

What do you mean? In a complete loop from working, through not working, back to working, the following

pactl list sinks | grep ^Sink

always returns 1 match, telling me that there's only 1 sink at any single time, but each match features a different ID, meaning that the sink changes, no?

The specific command you quoted, doesn't seem to affect the issue. Or do you mean I should reboot/anything else after executing it? I understand so little of this matter that whatever things any of you proposes, all the questions keep popping in my mind (Do I reboot now? Do I log out? ...). And I think the confusion is the total incosistency of behavior I observe.

Done that:

systemctl --user stop wireplumber
rm -rf .local/state/wireplumber
systemctl --user start wireplumber

but the issue persists.

Incidentally, I forgot to say something that I think it's irrelevant, but at this point, I have no clue. The computer is connected to the monitor via DisplayPort, and the monitor is also connected to some external surveillance devices via HDMI. I assume the computer has absolutely no clue what the other ports of the monitor are connected to, hence I didn't give this info so far.

Also, I've downloaded wiremix and, wow, doing experiments with that keyboard based TUI with vi-like bindings is waaaaaay handier than using pavucontrol.

And resetting the settings had at least the advantage that now pausing YouTube and waiting does not result in breaking the audio; if I press play, it plays correctly the audio. Remains the problem of switching to another VT and back, or suspending, which both cause the audio to "break", and I need to do that double action to recover it.

Last edited by Enrico1989 (2026-06-10 20:50:02)