I did not have this issue last time I ran Arch / Endeavour (Xfce 4.16) nor when I was running Fedora 34 (Gnome 40).
But this time, after installing Pipewire, I cannot set default output. It doesn’t remember my settings after reboot and defaults to the sound card instead of the headphones (not bluetooth, so it’s not a connectivity issue).
pavucontrol
then set the default (“fallback”) output device?
Already done.
It ignores that setting completely.
kjw
May 30, 2021, 3:52pm
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Not at a PC but did you install pipeline-pulse?
Yep.
Installed components are:
pipewire
pipewire-pulse
gst-plugin-pipewire
pipewire-media-session
pavucontrol
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ringo
May 30, 2021, 6:05pm
7
is media session as --user enabled ?
Stupid question: How do I check?
systemctl --user status pipewire-media-session
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>> systemctl --user status pipewire-media-session
● pipewire-media-session.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-media-session.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-05-31 11:24:55 CEST; 3min 3s ago
Main PID: 1056 (pipewire-media-)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 19034)
Memory: 8.5M
CPU: 89ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-media-session.service
└─1056 /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
maj 31 11:24:55 dorktower-xfce systemd[937]: Started Multimedia Service Session Manager.
maj 31 11:24:55 dorktower-xfce pipewire-media-session[1056]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit
This MIGHT have been fixed with today’s update of Pipewire…
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Yes, but also:
11:08:44 <wtay> I would want to do a new release soon, 0.3.29 was messy
Edit: 0.3.30 is in the repos.
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