#i3 and all mw audio issues

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pine abyss
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im prob dumb but in i3 my audio input and output devices dont show up. same with all wm but for some reason, in kde or xfce do infact show them. i would love to use i3 but the audio is a big deal breaker.

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it also effects all wm i have tried

vast jackal
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yo

pine abyss
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yes

vast jackal
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are you using pipewire or wireplumber?

pine abyss
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yea i got both cuz when i was installing someone in a dif discord reccomened them

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btw im newish to gentoo

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i installed a few days ago

vast jackal
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no worries :)

pine abyss
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k

vast jackal
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so how you starting pipewiire?

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what is your init system - openrc or systemd?

pine abyss
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openrc

vast jackal
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alright so are you using gentoo-pipeiwre-launcher?

pine abyss
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i think so

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but i use kde

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rn

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so it does it automaticly

vast jackal
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Could you paste up your i3 config for me?

pine abyss
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i have done very little to i3

vast jackal
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oh yea that's all cool just need to see what's in it

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because you need to add something for audio to work

pine abyss
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k im finding it rn

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also

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i have tried some other wm

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they also had the same issues

vast jackal
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yea that makes sense - with a wm you need to have some way of starting the audio server manually if on openrc (which currently doesn't have user services in sys-apps/openrc)

pine abyss
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oops

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wrong config

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i gtg

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ill be back at 7ish

vast jackal
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no worries but you just need to add to the top of your i3 config this:

pine abyss
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but there it is

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ok

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i can add something to it rq

vast jackal
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exec gentoo-pipewire-launcher &
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log out and log back in

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job done

pine abyss
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ok

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how do i get my monitor to auto connect?

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i gtg

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but ill do that when i come back

vast jackal
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sorry wasn't reading here

vast jackal
pine abyss