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authorguest271314 <guest271314@gmail.com>2022-01-15 22:08:15 +0000
committerPulseAudio Marge Bot <pulseaudio-maintainers@lists.freedesktop.org>2022-01-26 17:13:53 +0000
commit4b996e2a7b92d7183a70ec32f6ef74c522bfcde7 (patch)
treed1f6e01d5d472cb2b2f92b94d11b6c3e5f654402
parent16f0a4d7f49dfcec635a9afb28f2bf0f2255bb66 (diff)
downloadpulseaudio-4b996e2a7b92d7183a70ec32f6ef74c522bfcde7.tar.gz
pacat: Include the special default device names in documentation
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/684>
-rw-r--r--man/pacat.1.xml.in2
-rw-r--r--src/utils/pacat.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/pacat.1.xml.in b/man/pacat.1.xml.in
index 72fc0ad31..387f3ed4e 100644
--- a/man/pacat.1.xml.in
+++ b/man/pacat.1.xml.in
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ License along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<option>
<p><opt>-d | --device</opt><arg>=SINKORSOURCE</arg></p>
- <optdesc><p>Specify the symbolic name of the sink/source to play/record this stream on/from.</p></optdesc>
+ <optdesc><p>Specify the symbolic name of the sink/source to play/record this stream on/from. The special names @DEFAULT_SINK@, @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ and @DEFAULT_MONITOR@ can be used to specify the default sink, source and monitor respectively.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
diff --git a/src/utils/pacat.c b/src/utils/pacat.c
index 39ccaffd0..e656dee1b 100644
--- a/src/utils/pacat.c
+++ b/src/utils/pacat.c
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ static void help(const char *argv0) {
" -p, --playback Create a connection for playback\n\n"
" -v, --verbose Enable verbose operations\n\n"
" -s, --server=SERVER The name of the server to connect to\n"
- " -d, --device=DEVICE The name of the sink/source to connect to\n"
+ " -d, --device=DEVICE The name of the sink/source to connect to. The special names @DEFAULT_SINK@, @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ and @DEFAULT_MONITOR@ can be used to specify the default sink, source and monitor respectively.\n"
" -n, --client-name=NAME How to call this client on the server\n"
" --stream-name=NAME How to call this stream on the server\n"
" --volume=VOLUME Specify the initial (linear) volume in range 0...65536\n"