Re: PipeWire as a PulseAudio replacement (was Re: The Shepherd on Fibers)

[Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org>]

Hi Josselin,


Quoting Josselin Poiret (2022-04-28 14:48:55)
> Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org> writes:
> 
> > I recently switched from Xorg to Wayland and I'm quite happy with my new
> > setup! The only last "little" thing that doesn't work for me is
> > screen-sharing using Icecat and/or Chromium!? :-(
> 
> I know that at least for icecat, it needs to dlopen pipewire for
> screen-sharing to work, but for now it isn't included in the icecat
> package.

Oh! Any roadmap for that?! Is it discussed somewhere else?!


> In the meantime, i've been using the command line
> `LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(guix build pipewire)/lib" icecat` to get
> screensharing working in icecat.

OK… I'll give it a try.


> Also, you say you've set the env variables, but you need to set them for
> dbus: that means running `update-dbus-activation-environment
> WAYLAND_DISPLAY`, is that what you ended up doing?

If you meant `dbus-update-activation-environment`… this so much what
I have **NOT** done! :-D … I just set ENVVAR. ^_^'

Sorry, but all of this is a bit of voodoo to me! But I'll give it a try.

Thanks for your precious advice!

-- 
Tanguy