From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pulseaudio not active when using exwm Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:53:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87bkf2d4q5.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <871qg3cm85.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="643"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SYmih4vGqJFWkZAyTbfQkUCnZUI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 22 14:12:13 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qYQF1-000ARU-VW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:12:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qYQEs-0003HL-Vf; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXUop-0006Rt-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 18:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXUom-0000wR-MK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2023 18:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qXUok-0004Gs-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:53:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:12:01 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144900 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga wrote: > Using the same .xsession file, I can start up X with either > a standard window manager (e.g. StumpWM, KDE, Gnome, etc.) > or alternatively Emacs (i.e. exwm). Technically KDE and Gnome are desktops. Window managers run on top of those, typically, but not necessarily so, as you can start X manually, for example with 'startx', and then start a window manager, also manually or automated as part of .xinitrc, thus avoiding the desktop. See this, for example https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.xinitrc If you do that, you have a window system (X) and a window manager (openbsd-cwm in my case) but no desktop. > If I choose Emacs, my sound system is not configured > properly: only the system speaker is active. If I choose > StumpWM, say, I have all the various sound devices available > (headphones, speakers in my monitor). It SOUNDS like the sound is setup as part of you launching a desktop, e.g. Gnome or KDE, and if you don't, the sound system, as not being part of the window manager and why should it be, won't start with exwm. So it is rather an issue for your Linux distribution or Unix system, and not the WM - "how do I get the sound running on X without Gnome?" or something. Here are a bunch of commands that might be useful, but use them at your own risc since I didn't have to bother with that for ages, it just worked and not necessarily thanks to those commands: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/.zsh/audio-test -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal