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service pipewire does not exist

I have installed
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pipewire 1:1.4.2-1
pipewire-openrc 20250308-2
but when I run
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doas rc-update add pipewire default
it returned
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 * rc-update: service `pipewire' does not exist

Re: service pipewire does not exist

Reply #1 –
PipeWire should be started as user services which are provided by *-openrc packages:
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rc-update --user add pipewire default
rc-update --user add pipewire-pulse default
rc-update --user add wireplumber default

Re: service pipewire does not exist

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@darcy How can I activate it system-wide instead? It doesn't feel right having a single service running in user...
 

Re: service pipewire does not exist

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Quote from: theeast – on
@darcy How can I activate it system-wide instead? It doesn't feel right having a single service running in user...

This isn't an issue of feeling, but how pipewire is designed, it necessitates a user service.
Nothing to do with feeling, but facts.

Re: service pipewire does not exist

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PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph-based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK. PipeWire was designed with a powerful security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy, with support for Flatpak applications being the primary goal. Alongside Wayland and Flatpak, we expect PipeWire to provide a core building block for the future of Linux application development.

I'm out of it for a little while and everyone gets delusions of grandeur..  God help us...

Before there was a user service there was no way to run pipewire?  Wasn't user services just recently added to openrc?

Re: service pipewire does not exist

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Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
Before there was a user service there was no way to run pipewire?
Of course there was. As a user in various ways. Pipewire is not designed to run as as any user other than the user using it (Almost a tongue twister)
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Wasn't user services just recently added to openrc?
Yes. It has helped.

Re: service pipewire does not exist

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Quote from: gripped – on
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
Before there was a user service there was no way to run pipewire?
Of course there was. As a user in various ways. Pipewire is not designed to run as as any user other than the user using it (Almost a tongue twister)
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Wasn't user services just recently added to openrc?
Yes. It has helped.




It was run out of ./.profile or ./.bashrc ?