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title="NEW - KDE specific rule in start-pulseaudio-x11 should go"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95104">95104</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>KDE specific rule in start-pulseaudio-x11 should go
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<th>Product</th>
<td>PulseAudio
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>daemon
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>markg85@gmail.com
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>CC</th>
<td>lennart@poettering.net
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<pre>Hi,
PulseAudio 8.0 introduced a vastly improved "module-switch-on-connect" which i
like to use in KDE/Plasma 5. However, switching input to other devies as they
get connected doesn't seem to work under Plasma 5. It works just fine under
GNOME.
So i investigated this issue a bit.
It turns out that "start-pulseaudio-x11" detects a full KDE session and does
some specific module loading:
if [ x"$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = x"true" ]; then
/usr/bin/pactl load-module module-device-manager "do_routing=1" >
/dev/null
fi
In my case that very line was breaking module-switch-on-connect. Removing it
made it work just as advertised in the PulseAudio 8.0 release notes.
I would like to ask to remove that line in the next release of PulseAudio.
Perhaps it had it's reasons to be there in the past, but i can't seem to find
any reason for that to still be needed. These days Plasma 5 also has a default
volume applet that is meant for PulseAudio management. In fact, kmix isn't even
part of the default install anymore (on ArchLinux at least).
Cheers,
Mark</pre>
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