On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:40 AM Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/7/21 5:52 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>>
>> There is a problem in doing this. If we move to pulseaudio-daemon, we
>> lose our current volume mixer - pavucontrol (which, I am sure requires
>> pulseaudio and is not generic). Other DEs, as far as I know (i.e. GNOME,
>> MATE, and Cinnamon), have their own mixers. pulseaudio-plugin relies on
>> an external mixer.
>>
>> I would prefer not to move to without a suitable replacement for
>> pavucontrol - if we can avoid it. Does pipewire provide a suitable
>> replacement for pavucontrol?
>>
>> Does this make sense?
>>
>
> pavucontrol works fine with PipeWire. The libpulse library interacts
> with the PipeWire-PulseAudio daemon just fine, and everything
> basically works.
>
>
>
Okay, I am clearly missing something here -
# dnf install pavucontrol
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Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version
Repository Size
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Installing:
pavucontrol x86_64 4.0-5.fc33
rawhide 171 k
Installing dependencies:
libasyncns x86_64 0.8-19.fc33
rawhide 30 k
libcanberra x86_64 0.30-23.fc33
rawhide 87 k
libcanberra-gtk3 x86_64 0.30-23.fc33
rawhide 32 k
pulseaudio-libs x86_64 14.0-2.fc34
rawhide 691 k
pulseaudio-libs-glib2 x86_64 14.0-2.fc34
rawhide 18 k
sound-theme-freedesktop noarch 0.8-14.fc33
rawhide 378 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 7 Packages
Total download size: 1.4 M
Installed size: 5.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
Operation aborted.
[root@localhost user]# rpm -qa pipewire*
pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-4.fc33.x86_64
pipewire-0.3.18-1.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-libs-0.3.18-1.fc34.x86_64
Rebuilding xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin,
--- a/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin.spec
+++ b/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin.spec
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ BuildRequires: libnotify-devel
Obsoletes: xfce4-mixer <= 4.11
# Obsoletes--->xfce4-volumed <= 0.1.13
-Requires: pulseaudio
+Requires: pulseaudio-daemon
Requires: pavucontrol
# rpm -qp --requires xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.4.3-3.fc34.x86_64.rpm
<snip>
libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0()(64bit)
libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0(PULSE_0)(64bit)
libpulse.so.0()(64bit)
libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0)(64bit)
libxfce4panel-2.0.so.4()(64bit)
libxfce4ui-2.so.0()(64bit)
libxfce4util.so.7()(64bit)
libxfconf-0.so.3()(64bit)
pavucontrol
pulseaudio-daemon
What am I doing wrong?
I think you are doing nothing wrong, pipewire provides a replacement
for the pulseaudio daemon so clients like pavucontrol or
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin can keep using libpulse transparently.