just I didn't explain myself well.
Yeah, you did just fine. Reading comprehension was my job. I just expected it to work like it did in Budgie.
I'm not using a media device. I'm browsing Twitter using Vivaldi. Some of the posts include short videos, and I'd like to be able to listen to those while my wife watches TV. (Just one example.)
With Budgie, once the earbuds were connected, all audio, whatever the source, went to the earbuds. Sometimes I'd watch the news on my laptop while my wife was watching a chick flick on the TV.
It's not really a big loss for me, though. I can take off the bottom of my laptop and swap the Plasma SSD for the Budgie SSD I removed. (I can do that in less than 5 minutes.) I just wanted to make sure there isn't some simple solution before giving up on Plasma (again).
Serves me right for cheating on Budgie. 😁