Hi all, new here and still fairly new to Gnome (and Linux-based systems as a whole) so apologies if I title this or tag this incorrectly or anything like that. With that said, I’m running a Framework 16 (“AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840HS w/ Radeon™ 780M Graphics × 16”, 64GB RAM and 8TB SSD) on Fedora 42, with Gnome 48 as its environment.
The issue I’ve encountered is, one of my ears is stronger than the other, making me need to adjust the left-right sound balance to favor one side over the other in the Settings app. The problem is, Settings seems to never ‘remember’ to make this change when I plug in my audio devices, even if I had changed the balance for that specific device before to my needs. It does seem to recognize that I had made this change prior (i.e., it will show that the sound balance is off-center, which is what I want, in the GUI), but the actual audio output itself always centers itself each time the system recognizes an audio device, which is not what I want. It effectively means that to have a decent audio experience I have to open the Settings app and ‘remind’ it to actually apply the proper left-right balance, which is a small hassle, but still a hassle. I don’t know if Settings is the culprit for this problem, but I admittedly don’t know enough about the Gnome/Linux stack to point fingers at any deeper cause so it’s my best guess.
Please let me know if there’s any more details/logs I can provide, or if there’s anything I can explain better.