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I have a new laptop. Because I switched from a desktop computer my usage is a little different. Also, because this laptop is much more powerful than my old computer I switched from Xfce4 to Cinnamon. I don't know if that latter fact is relevant.

So I installed Debian Jessie, with the Cinnamon desktop, and my home partition was completely empty so that the configuration is now mostly the defaults. There is something with my system which I am finding extremely irritating. That is, my sound settings keep changing.

Say I bring my laptop into my office, plug my screen, keyboard and speakers in, because I want to go to put some music on. Fine, I'll fire up rhythmbox and find the playlist I want, and press play. Then I find that the sound has been muted. I did not mute it myself, but I think something muted it when I plugged the speakers in.

Then I'll load a page in firefox. That page has an advertisement or a video that emits sound, so that suddenly mutes the headphone jack and puts the internal speakers on. Why is this happening?

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It's a fact that pulseaudio is not so stable nowadays in all situations. Use pavucontrol and pasystray for controlling volume settings continuously, or you can remove pulseaudio completely and using pure alsa, but it may do other annoying things. Try to add jessie-backports repository and upgrade pulseaudio to 7.0.

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free

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