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pw-reserve — Reserve a device for PipeWire. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pw-reserve_1.ht

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Problem

How to use the pw-reserve command: Reserve a device for PipeWire. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pw-reserve_1.html>.

Solution

pw-reserve — Reserve a device for PipeWire. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pw-reserve_1.html>.

Reserve a device (currently only supports audio devices):

pw-reserve {{[-n|--name]}} {{audioN}}

Monitor a device instead of reserving it:

pw-reserve {{[-n|--name]}} {{audioN}} {{[-m|--monitor]}}

Display help:

pw-reserve {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

Reserve a device (currently only supports audio devices)

pw-reserve {{[-n|--name]}} {{audioN}}

Monitor a device instead of reserving it

pw-reserve {{[-n|--name]}} {{audioN}} {{[-m|--monitor]}}

Display help

pw-reserve {{[-h|--help]}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/pw-reserve

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