What is pipe wire? > On Oct 7, 2021, at 7:05 PM, Linux for blind general discussion > <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > > Isn't Linux Mint still based on Ubuntu? How did they fix the problem of > having to log out and back in to get a talking installer that Ubuntu has yet > to fix? Ubuntu 21.10 needs to take a page from the Linux Mint playbook to > make their installer talk without having to go through the work-around logout > login procedure to get it talking. I myself would look at Mint, but I'm not > fond of the Debian base. That doesn't preclude my installation of this distro > for others, as I have been known to install Ubuntu for its ease of use, > although I'm more partial to Fedora Linux these days, especially since it > includes flatpak out of the box, and snapd can be installed quite easily. I > actually have a couple of snaps working here without any issues. > > > First, to get to the panel with the system tray, you usually hold down the > alt and control keys and press the tab key repeatedly until you hear "top > panel." But if I remember correctly, Mint has no top panel, only the bottom > one, so your system tray is there. So if you never hear "top panel," just go > to the bottom panel and you're good. > > > The sound issue is caused by a conflict between more than one user trying to > access sound at the same time. The conflict appears to be a race condition > where the first user's sound session doesn't get killed fast enough, so the > second user is blocked from using the sound device. This usually is not a > problem using Pulseaudio, but for some reason Pipewire still has this > problem. I switched up mine on Arch and I see the same thing, even running a > talking login screen and then logging in as my normal user on a single-user > system. Again, I only saw this when I switched that system to pipewire and > installed the pipewire-pulse or pipewire-pulseaudio package, so it sounds > like this may be what Mint is doing. It should be possible to resolve the > issue using regular pulseaudio. If pulseaudio is already installed and this > problem is still occurring, I'm not sure where to look next, unless you can > set up a session wrapper script that will kill the user's running pulseaudio > when that user logs out, which should happen automatically, but may not be happening early enough. I hope this helps. > > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >
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