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Pipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference? (itsfoss.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

On my distro (debian) I can use systemctl --user restart pipewire.service.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

This is just generally how you should restart most things on systemd systems.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Thank you, I added the command to my Linux Journal,

Your post motivated me to do some more trials and it ended up that my greetd greeter was locking up the audio sink.

So I made sure to add a command after the greeter exits killall -u greeter and the sink finally passed correctly to the logged in user just fine after that.

In reviewing the arch wiki some more too I've installed wire plumber session manager for pipewire, I am still a little confused about it's function and relation to pipewire but maybe that has helped too?

Cheers :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I used to have to occasionally run this but I'd say it has been at least a couple of years since I last had to. I was a pretty early adopter of pipewire because it solved some Bluetooth issues that pulseaudio had. It has improved immensely since I first started using it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair (with pipewire*) my audio issues usually related to HDMI audio output which has been a PITA for like 20 years since the days of Xbox 360.

I started using PipeWire as soon as Arch switched the recommended default and I agree, it cleared up a lot of issues and fixed my Bluetooth headset, which was nice.

My 3.5mm issues are complicated by the scenario where I have a extension cable always plugged in but not always my headphone cable (sennheisers stock cables aren't super long)

I just wanted to add this as a "to be fair" and there is a element of "user error" where I just haven't put enough time in to really learn pipewire.

Well last night I resolved my problems by making sure to kill all processed owned by the greeter (as seen in my other post thanks to OP^^)

`killall -u greeter'

Now I can enjoy my Ubuntu startup sound in peace /s /volume-warning

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CQaEXZ-df6Y

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

you should really report that bug to the greeter people, that should be fixed for everyone