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Title: Pipewire KDE autostart
Post by: Zetetik on 18 August 2025, 11:46:53

https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Site/PipewireInsteadPulseaudio#Desktop_Environment Mentions a .sh script, however .sh does not seem to be supported by KDE, not according to the linked https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Autostarting#On_desktop_environment_startup or according to the latter's linked https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/plasma-workspace/kcontrol/autostart/index.html official documentation, it all mentions .desktop and not .sh. I'm mentioning this mainly as an issue to be fixed, I (hopefully) will get pipewire to start with KDE somehow Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Title: Re: Pipewire KDE autostart
Post by: Zetetik on 18 August 2025, 11:53:47

Seems the .sh script allowed for start-pipewire.sh.desktop to be created in the same directory, but it seems to do nothing, its contents are:

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[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/home/logz/.config/autostart/start-pipewire.sh
Icon=application-x-shellscript
Name=start-pipewire.sh
Type=Application
X-KDE-AutostartScript=true

Title: Re: Pipewire KDE autostart
Post by: gripped on 18 August 2025, 12:09:36

Run it manually in a terminal

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/home/logz/.config/autostart/start-pipewire.sh

and post the output.

Title: Re: Pipewire KDE autostart
Post by: Zetetik on 18 August 2025, 13:22:31

For my usecase, disabling ssdm and using startx with .xinitrc instead solved it.

Title: Re: Pipewire KDE autostart
Post by: artoo on 18 August 2025, 13:24:03

On openrc or dinit, you can just enable the user services without adding scripts.

Title: Re: Pipewire KDE autostart
Post by: Zetetik on 18 August 2025, 13:25:54

Quote from: gripped – on 18 August 2025, 12:09:36

Run it manually in a terminal
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/home/logz/.config/autostart/start-pipewire.sh
and post the output.

I re-enabled ssdm and, yes that did work!

Title: Re: Pipewire KDE autostart
Post by: MorsMortium on 18 August 2025, 17:10:05

I use OpenRC.
There it is as simple as

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sudo pacman -S wireplumber-openrc pipewire-pulse-openrc

rc-update add pipewire --user
rc-service pipewire start --user
rc-update add pipewire-pulse --user
rc-service pipewire-pulse start --user
rc-update add wireplumber --user
rc-service wireplumber start --user

wireplumber-dinit and pipewire-pulse-dinit exists too (wireplumber-dinit also pulls in pipewire-dinit as wireplumber-openrc pulls in pipewire-openrc)
But I don't know the commands to enable/start them there

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