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Is there a headphone daemon for Linux like there is for maemo? It is really convenient that whenever you unplug your headphones, the media player automatically stops playing.

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  • It seems unlikely that would you describe would actually exist - largely because of the fact that the kernel probably wouldn't need to know itself. It'd be a major hack, so I'd be surprised if you find such a thing. Don't let it stop your trying, though.
    – new123456
    Mar 30, 2011 at 0:18
  • Maybe a simple program that get list of devices from PulseAudio, and checks if a new device with type of headphone is connected, do the job. But how to getting list of PulseAudio devices (with their types) is the point.
    – saeedgnu
    Jun 11, 2011 at 13:36

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the hda driver, covers most of the new HD sound cards now has a way to detect plug changes. So if you did have a newer sound card, an input event happens when ever you change headphones. An input event could be mapped to a virtual keypress, such as mute. With that, just map the keypress to "MUTE" or one of the other multi-media keys.

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  • Ok, I will have to read up on that. Thanks for the info.
    – Walter
    Jul 18, 2011 at 12:54

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