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8 This file is part of PulseAudio.
10 PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
11 under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
12 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
13 License, or (at your option) any later version.
15 PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
16 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
17 or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General
18 Public License for more details.
20 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
21 License along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software
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26 <manpage name="pactl" section="1" desc="Control a running PulseAudio sound server">
29 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] stat</cmd>
30 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] list</cmd>
31 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] exit</cmd>
32 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] upload-sample <arg>FILENAME</arg> [<arg>NAME</arg>]</cmd>
33 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] play-sample <arg>NAME</arg> [<arg>SINK</arg>]</cmd>
34 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] remove-sample <arg>NAME</arg></cmd>
35 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] move-sink-input <arg>ID</arg> <arg>SINK</arg></cmd>
36 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] move-source-input <arg>ID</arg> <arg>SOURCE</arg></cmd>
37 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] load-module <arg>NAME</arg> [<arg>ARGUMENTS ...</arg>]</cmd>
38 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] unload-module <arg>ID</arg></cmd>
39 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] suspend-sink [<arg>SINK</arg>] <arg>1|0</arg></cmd>
40 <cmd>pulseaudio [<arg>options</arg>] suspend-source [<arg>SOURCE</arg>] <arg>1|0</arg></cmd>
41 <cmd>pulseaudio <opt>--help</opt></cmd>
42 <cmd>pulseaudio <opt>--version</opt></cmd>
46 <p>PulseAudio is a networked low-latency sound server for Linux, POSIX and Windows systems.</p>
52 <p><opt>-h | --help</opt></p>
54 <optdesc><p>Show help.</p></optdesc>
58 <p><opt>--version</opt></p>
60 <optdesc><p>Show version information.</p></optdesc>
64 <p><opt>-s | --server</opt><arg>=SERVER</arg></p>
66 <optdesc><p>Choose the server to connect to.</p></optdesc>
70 <p><opt>-n | --client-name</opt><arg>=NAME</arg></p>
72 <optdesc><p>Specify the client name <file>pactl</file> shall pass to the server when connecting.</p></optdesc>
76 <p><opt>stat</opt></p>
78 <optdesc><p>Dump a few statistics about the PulseAudio daemon.</p></optdesc>
82 <p><opt>list</opt></p>
84 <optdesc><p>Dump all currently loaded modules, available sinks, sources, streams and clients.</p></optdesc>
88 <p><opt>exit</opt></p>
90 <optdesc><p>Asks the PulseAudio server to terminate.</p></optdesc>
95 <p><opt>upload-sample</opt> <arg>FILENAME</arg> [<arg>NAME</arg>]</p>
97 <optdesc><p>Upload a sound from the specified audio file into
98 the sample cache. The file types supported are those understood
99 by <file>libsndfile</file>. The sample in the cache is named
100 after the audio file, unless the name is explicitly
101 specified.</p></optdesc>
106 <p><opt>play-sample</opt> <arg>NAME</arg> [<arg>SINK</arg>]</p>
108 <optdesc><p>Play the specified sample from the sample cache. It
109 is played on the default sink, unless the symbolic name or the
110 numerical index of the sink to play it on is
111 specified.</p></optdesc>
116 <p><opt>remove-sample</opt> <arg>NAME</arg></p>
118 <optdesc><p>Remove the specified sample from the sample cache.</p></optdesc>
122 <p><opt>move-sink-input</opt> <arg>ID</arg> <arg>SINK</arg></p>
124 <optdesc><p>Move the specified playback stream (identified by its numerical index) to the specified sink (identified by its symbolic name or numerical index).</p></optdesc>
128 <p><opt>move-source-output</opt> <arg>ID</arg> <arg>SOURCE</arg></p>
130 <optdesc><p>Move the specified recording stream (identified by its numerical index) to the specified source (identified by its symbolic name or numerical index).</p></optdesc>
135 <section name="Authors">
136 <p>The PulseAudio Developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; PulseAudio is available from <url href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/></p>
139 <section name="See also">
141 <manref name="pulseaudio" section="1"/>, <manref name="pacmd" section="1"/>