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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:35 pm    Post subject: removing pipewire from my system (solved) Reply with quote

While trying to find out why Jamin doesn't want to start anymore I found that for some reason unknown to me Pipewire is running on my system. Now I do not really want this. I use Alsa and Jack and that suits all my needs fine. I have no idea how pipewire came onto the system in the first place.

Is there a way to find out which packages installed it and start it at startup?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can run
Code:

emerge -cav pipewire

and see what pulled it.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
daw ~ # emerge -cav pipewire

Calculating dependencies... done!
  media-video/pipewire-0.3.77-r2 pulled in by:
    kde-plasma/kpipewire-5.27.7 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:0/0.4=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:=
    kde-plasma/kwin-5.27.7-r2 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:0/0.4=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:=
    kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.27.7-r1 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:0/0.4=
    media-libs/libsdl2-2.28.1 requires media-video/pipewire:=[abi_x86_64(-)], media-video/pipewire:0/0.4=[abi_x86_64(-)]
    media-sound/mpd-0.23.12-r2 requires media-video/pipewire:=, media-video/pipewire:0/0.4=
    media-video/wireplumber-0.4.14 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3.65-r1:=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3.65-r1:0/0.4=
    sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-1.16.0-r1 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:0/0.4=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:=

>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean


Looks like Plasma did a number on that. Silly that it starts that because just killing the processes has no effect on sound. going to see if I can change the use to -pipewire.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spanik wrote:
Looks like Plasma did a number on that. Silly that it starts that because just killing the processes has no effect on sound. going to see if I can change the use to -pipewire.

Yes, use-flag "pipewire" is now default in a plasma-profile (desktop-profile also ?)
Maybe it is sufficient to set this in package.use:
Code:
media-video/pipewire -sound-server
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pietinger wrote:

Yes, use-flag "pipewire" is now default in a plasma-profile (desktop-profile also ?)

You probably wanted to say that 'pipewire USE sound-server' is now default in plasma desktop profile, that is correct. You do not want to operate 'USE screencast' because that is about screencast using video part of pipewire.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

pietinger wrote:
Spanik wrote:
Looks like Plasma did a number on that. Silly that it starts that because just killing the processes has no effect on sound. going to see if I can change the use to -pipewire.

Yes, use-flag "pipewire" is now default in a plasma-profile (desktop-profile also ?)
Maybe it is sufficient to set this in package.use:
Code:
media-video/pipewire -sound-server


Put in the flags, emerged the whole lot with -uvUD but still pipewire and wireplumber running. I think I'll need to learn how to write a startup script that just kills them each time. The dependencies have shrunk however:

Code:
daw ~ # emerge -cav pipewire

Calculating dependencies... done!
  media-video/pipewire-0.3.80 pulled in by:
    kde-plasma/kpipewire-5.27.8 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:0/0.4=
    kde-plasma/kwin-5.27.8-r3 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:0/0.4=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:=
    kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.27.8-r1 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:0/0.4=
    media-video/wireplumber-0.4.14 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3.65-r1:0/0.4=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3.65-r1:=
    sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-1.16.0-r1 requires >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:=, >=media-video/pipewire-0.3:0/0.4=

>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean


That xdg-desktop-portal seemt to come from flatpak. Going to start kicking that out. I remember I wanted to try something that was only available as a flatpak but I never got it working.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spanik wrote:

Put in the flags, emerged the whole lot with -uvUD but still pipewire and wireplumber running. I think I'll need to learn how to write a startup script that just kills them each time. The dependencies have shrunk however:

Without 'USE sound-server' pipewire and wireplumber are only handling video. Check used devices with 'wpctl status', you should be fine already.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That gives:
Code:
daw ~ # wpctl status
Could not connect to PipeWire
daw ~ #


So that seems to be ok. Next step finishing that @world update. There is a new kernel I see.

Thanks guys!
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