[artix-general] [ot] pipewire without pulse (volume control)

Chris Cromer cromer at artixlinux.org
Mon Jul 5 04:56:27 CEST 2021


Personally I think it does no harm leaving pipewire-alsa on there. And 
who knows, you might just run into some software somewhere that does 
actually use alsa without you even realizing it.

On 7/4/21 10:54 PM, Javier wrote:
> On 7/4/21 8:48 PM, Chris Cromer wrote:
>> What you want is impossible. The programmers who wrote those software 
>> wrote in pulse audio code/support only. If you remove pipewire-pulse 
>> you will not have any audio from those software.
>>
>> Until the people who write those software modify their software and 
>> add in pipewire support code, you can't get rid of pipewire-pulse.
>>
>> Also you are not using pipewire on top of pulse by having 
>> pipewire-pulse installed. When you install pipewire-pulse it removes 
>> pulse audio from your system. You can't have pulse audio and 
>> pipewire-pulse installed at the same time. pipewire-pulse is just a 
>> compatibility layer, all it does is fool software into thinking pulse 
>> audio is installed and redirect everything to pipewire and makes the 
>> magic work.
> 
> I see, thanks a lot for clarifying !
> 
> I'll give it a try then.  I guess if using pipewire-pulse, then there's 
> no sense on having pipewire-alsa around, since most applications now a 
> day use pulse as their audio backend...
> 
> Thanks again !
> 
> 

-- 
Chris Cromer
Artix Developer
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