From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: raingloom Subject: bug#38172: WebkitGTK-based browsers: System volume suddenly maxed out when playing audio or video Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:07:20 +0100 Message-ID: <54496e7bbfd36f00b982bcdfe0557864d1f7938b.camel__24625.1815043919$1578377341$gmane$org@riseup.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33203) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ioi27-0002RC-AW for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:08:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ioi26-00016y-1p for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:08:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41203) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ioi25-00016r-VO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:08:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ioi25-00087l-Oq for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:08:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Alek Zikon , "help-guix@gnu.org" Cc: 38172@debbugs.gnu.org On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 18:02 +0000, Alek Zikon wrote: > Everytime audio or video starts playing on WebkitGTK-based browsers > (epiphany, next), the system volume is maxed out. This happens when > you start the audio or video by clicking on the play button and also > when audio or videos are played automatically (in a playlist, or ad > videos, for example). > > This issue has been reported before upstream, but epiphany people say > the source of the problem is in pulsaudio defaults on distros ( > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/issues/73): > > Thanks for reporting this issue. You'll need to ask Debian to > disable > PulseAudio's flat volumes feature, as is done by all other major > distributions (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, openSUSE, probably more), > since we're not going to make any changes here. > > I found that there is a related pulsaudio bug reported on Guix ( > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38172). Unfortunately, this issue > is still open. > > Epiphany people say you, as a user, can work around the issue by > setting "flat-volumes = no in your /etc/pulse/daemon.conf." What's > the correct way to this on the Guix System? > > > I'm using this software: > > epiphany 3.30.4 > WebKitGTK+ 2.26.1 > GNOME 3.30.2 > > $ guix describe > Generation 16 Jan 03 2020 14:36:37 (current) > guix 7158fe4 > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > branch: master > commit: 7158fe4ded47a599ceb8d556132ba83fcc686962 > CC-ing https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38172