pipewire installation [SOLVED]

[young tinsel]

I have no idea how to get it working, I downloaded it, but don't know how to get apps to use it

[night narwhal]

downloaded it ?

[young tinsel]

sudo pacman -S pipewire

[night narwhal]

you installed* it

[night narwhal]

that should be it, you are done, you have pipewire

unless you are having audio problems ?

[young tinsel]

no audio

[night narwhal]

what's the output of pacman -Qs pipewire

[young tinsel]

give me a sec

[night narwhal]

pacman -S pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack

if it ask you to replace pulseaudio, alsa, etc.. just say yes

[young tinsel]

wire plumber or pipewire media session?

[night narwhal]

i personally use wireplumber, choose whichever one you want, there's no significant difference

[young tinsel]

kk

[night narwhal]

did you press "y" when pacman prompted to remove jack2 ?

[young tinsel]

yes

it won't delete because ffmpeg waybar and others need it

and pacman can't delete pipewire-jack

says cant find it

I dont think its intalled

nope

[night narwhal]

weird, pacman should be able to remove it even tho other packages depend on it

[night narwhal]

you are not supposed to run pipewire from the command line like that

[young tinsel]

oh

[night narwhal]

This has nothing to do with pipewire

Let's at least install the pulseaudio and alsa clients then deal with jack2 later

pacman -S pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse

[young tinsel]

already done did

[night narwhal]

since we already know pipewire-jack can replcace jack2 we can probably ignore pacman's inability to resolve the conflicts

pacman -Rdd jack2

then pacman -S pipewire-jack

[young tinsel]

done

[night narwhal]

either logout and login or systemctl start --user pipewire.service

[young tinsel]

okay

still no audio...

[night narwhal]

what's the output of systemctl status --user pipewire.service

[night narwhal]

did you try to logout and login again ?

[young tinsel]

no

waybar doesn't works anymore...

[night narwhal]

do systemctl stop pulseaudio.service just in case the pluseaudio service is still running, or just re-login

did you ever run pacman -Sy ?

instead of -Syu

[night narwhal]

stop not start

but you don't have to do that if you are going to just re-login

[young tinsel]

not loaded

[night narwhal]

good then

[young tinsel]

says the service is not found

[night narwhal]

yeah because we replaced it with pipewire

[young tinsel]

ahh

[night narwhal]

i am suspecting your system is partially updated

could you do pacman -Syu

[young tinsel]

all upto date

[night narwhal]

let's do systemctl start --user pipewire.service and see if audio work this time

[young tinsel]

yes it does!

but...

[night narwhal]

waybar

[young tinsel]

how i get waybar working again?

yup...

[night narwhal]

never used waybar, start a new thread for it. or do some googling

for now mark this as solved

[young tinsel]

then what you suggest?

pipewire installation [SOLVED]

[night narwhal]

google around, you are not the first person to have this issue

just found this: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/1811

might be useful, might be useless

waybar has a wireplumber page on their wiki: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-WirePlumber

apparently waybar uses wrieplumber to display the current volume

you might have to edit your waybar configuration to deal with that

[night narwhal]

according to the wiki, you should have something like this in your configs

"wireplumber": {
    "format": "{volume}%",
    "format-muted": "",
    "on-click": "helvum"
}

[young tinsel]

i dont, i need to add it

nope...

and its working

[young tinsel]

now doesn't wants to work

pipewire installation

[rigid vortex]

https://github.com/mikeroyal/PipeWire-Guide

Following the Archlinux section will probably fix this

[young tinsel]

page not found

now it fucking does...

[rigid vortex]

So did you get it right?

[young tinsel]

I hadn't had the chancd

school

[young tinsel]

working