pactl info

Category: Administration

pactl info

Show PulseAudio server information

pactl talks to the PulseAudio sound server, and info prints the server version, default sink, and default source. PulseAudio is the classic Linux sound daemon, now often bridged to PipeWire. The default sink name here is what set-default-sink expects.
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