Once you click on the Pavucontrol icon, you will see the following screen : To run Pavucontrol, open up the activities screen and type in ‘pulse’ in the input field as shown below : You can configure sound volume using PulseAudio graphical user interface or frontend which would need to be installed as well.
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Read: How to fix sound issues on Ubuntu 18.04 PulseAudio Volume Control: Pavucontrol Your computer would need to be restarted. You can install PulseAudio with the following command: Now close Software & Updates application and execute the command below in order to update the package repository list: Once you open the application, ensure the the marked checkboxes are ticked as shown in the snapshot below. In order to achieve this using a GUI, look up Software & Updates application by writing ‘software’ in the activities section as shown below. This is because some of the required packages that would need to be installed will be retrieved from software sources. Enabling different Software Sourcesīefore you start, you would need to ensure that main, universe, multiverse and restricted software sources are already enabled on your Ubuntu 18.04.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use PulseAudio in order to Manage Sounds on Ubuntu 18.04. It can alter the sound format, decrease or increase sound channels, send the sound of one machine to another one. PulseAudio has the ability to combine sounds from different sources (aka mixing).
It works like a proxy or a sound server which can manipulate the sound before it reaches your ears. PulseAudio handles the sound that is emitted by your Linux application.