On 10/3/24 2:27 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Certain high profile software demands pulseaudio. e.g. Firefox, or at least, it did. Pipewire-pulseaudio, and its deps, exist to make such software operate as though it has pulseaudio access. # zypper --no-refresh se -s -i pipew puls | egrep -v 'debug|devel|srcp|openSUSE-20' | egrep 'x86|noarch'| sort -f i | libpipewire-0_3-0 | package | 1.2.5-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS i | pipewire-spa-tools | package | 1.2.5-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS i | pulseaudio-setup | package | 17.0-4.4 | x86_64 | OSS i | pulseaudio-utils | package | 17.0-4.4 | x86_64 | OSS i+ | libpulse-mainloop-glib0 | package | 17.0-4.4 | x86_64 | OSS i+ | libpulse0 | package | 17.0-4.4 | x86_64 | OSS i+ | pipewire | package | 1.2.5-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS i+ | pipewire-alsa | package | 1.2.5-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS i+ | pipewire-modules-0_3 | package | 1.2.5-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS i+ | pipewire-pulseaudio | package | 1.2.5-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS i+ | pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2 | package | 1.2.5-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS i+ | pipewire-tools | package | 1.2.5-1.1 | x86_64 | OSS #
What I'm amazed at on TW, is I don't even have pipewire-alsa on my system. I suspect it is heavy on the audio dependencies, but will need to check exactly what. I've been really happy with sound on TW in KDE3 after kmix was fixed. That really just leaves the random knotify/system-sounds issue (the old libqt-mt.so.3 crash that maybe we will find before I'm too old to care :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.