Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:05 +0000, Philip Heron wrote:
> Apparently it's a feature. Try this in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to disable it:
> 
> flat-volumes = no
> 
> Logout and in again or reboot for it to take effect. Did the trick here.

Yikes - horrible feature.

Can pulseaudio be made to re-read it's config file _without_ having to
log out?

Regards,

Ranbir