From 3440a583a0cf60ffa4f6a7771bb47d8f5671893d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thierry Schork <thierry@schork.ch>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:12:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added cycle_pactl.sh

(cherry picked from commit 113c31566b6d21174e48c71fb98026d88c2a76eb)
---
 bin/cycle_pactl.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++
 bin/cycle_sinks.py | 54 ----------------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 bin/cycle_pactl.sh
 delete mode 100755 bin/cycle_sinks.py

diff --git a/bin/cycle_pactl.sh b/bin/cycle_pactl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..40b1ae6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/cycle_pactl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+default_sink=$(pactl info | grep "Default Sink:" | cut '-d ' -f3)
+sinks=$(pactl list short sinks | cut -f2)
+
+# for wrap-around
+sinks="$sinks
+$sinks"
+
+next_sink=$(echo "$sinks" | awk "/$default_sink/{getline x;print x;exit;}")
+
+pactl set-default-sink "$next_sink"
+pactl list short sink-inputs | \
+  cut -f1 | \
+  xargs -I{} pactl move-sink-input {} "$next_sink"
+
diff --git a/bin/cycle_sinks.py b/bin/cycle_sinks.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 4bd94c5..0000000
--- a/bin/cycle_sinks.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-import pulsectl
-
-pulse = pulsectl.Pulse('my-client-name')
-
-
-class my_sink:
-    name = "Here goes the name of the sink"
-    index = -1
-    desc = "Here goes a description"
-    sink = ""
-
-    def __init__(self, sink):
-        self.name = sink.name
-        self.index = sink.index
-        self.desc = sink.description
-        self.sink = sink
-
-    def __str__(self):
-        return f"\"{self.name}\" with index {self.index} and description: \"{self.desc}\""
-
-
-def get_sinks():
-    output_sinks = []
-    print(pulse.sink_list())
-    for s in pulse.sink_list():
-        m = my_sink(s)
-        output_sinks.append(m)
-
-    print(output_sinks)
-    return output_sinks
-
-
-def next_sink(output_sinks):
-    current_sink = pulse.server_info().default_sink_name
-    position = 0
-    for s in output_sinks:
-        if s.name == current_sink:
-            break
-        else:
-            position += 1
-
-    if position == len(output_sinks) - 1:
-        new_output = output_sinks[0]
-    else:
-        new_output = output_sinks[position+1]
-
-    print(current_sink + " will be switched to " + new_output.name)
-
-    pulse.default_set(new_output.sink)
-
-
-# Press the green button in the gutter to run the script.
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    next_sink(get_sinks())