From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407@posteo.ro>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: qutebrowser has no sound
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:20:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0x03esg.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu1wiog2.fsf@posteo.ro>
Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407@posteo.ro> writes:
> "bdju" <bdju@tilde.team> writes:
>
>> Hello, I've been using qutebrowser for a few days, and for some reason
>> I have no sound. I don't see an entry for it in pavucontrol or
>> pulsemixer at all. Videos play fine, mostly, but there's no audio. I
>> watch most things in mpv, but for some sites it's really preferable to
>> watch in the browser, so hopefully I can find a solution.
>> I have yet to run into another program with broken audio.
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been occasionally experiencing the same problem. While I don't
> know the permanent fix for this, I found that if I open pavucontrol and
> also play a bit of music with mpv and _only after_ this ritual open
> qutebrowser, I don't have problems with missing sound anymore.
>
> I suspect that it's got something to do with spawning some kind of
> processes for pulseaudio.
Pulseaudio should be started automatically (via dbus?) by applications
with pulseaudio support. Perhaps qutebrowser doesn’t do the right thing
here. Will it attempt to connect to ALSA?
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-11 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-09 6:29 qutebrowser has no sound bdju
2020-09-09 8:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-09-09 22:17 ` raingloom
2020-09-10 10:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-09-11 10:43 ` Alexandru-Sergiu Marton
2020-09-11 8:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-09-12 11:32 ` Alexandru-Sergiu Marton
2020-09-12 16:21 ` Bonface M. K.
2020-09-12 21:16 ` bdju
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