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What is the official workaround for people who have multiple sound
devices?  There must be a lot of people in this situation (i.e. everyone
with USB headphones).

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Title:
  indicator-sound under XFCE:  No way to change device

Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  When using indicator-sound under XFCE, there is no discernable way for
  a user to change the device whose volume it represents/controls.

  If you select 'Preferences', as you would to make this change when
  using Unity, you are taken to pavucontrol - which has no way to select
  a device for the control.

  To manually work around this, you must issue 'sudo gnome-control-
  center sound' (The sound, bluetooth, and other control center apps
  don't appear to be visible/accessible without sudo) and change the
  device.

  Either indicator-sound should dynamically iterate the devices and give
  you a chance to select them from its context menu, or pavucontrol
  needs a way to to change the device, or preferences should fire off
  the equivalent of 'sudo gnome-control-center sound' (preferably in a
  way that the user doesn't have to enter their password just to get to
  the sound preferences).

  I think the first of the three options is the best, because you
  wouldn't even need to show the devices in the menu if there were only
  one - and it would speed up access for people with multiple devices
  not only under XFCE but under Unity as well.

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