Re: [LAD] pipewire

I've heard of success stories -- most notably with Fedora -- and keep circling back to it. I'm using Pop!_OS 20.04 -- which is close 'nuf to Ubuntu 20.04 -- together with the KX Studio repositories. Cadence et all have been my friends... So. without knowing at all what I'm doing, I tried pipewire a few months ago and everything became an unusable mess. I uninstalled it all and tried again recently. While I'm not sure how to use it all, Catia now sees a whole bunch more than it used to, and various audio apps that I used to fuss with a bit seem to be working automatically. I found a couple of answers to "Replacing Pulseaudio with Pipewire in Ubuntu 20.04" https://askubuntu.com/a/1339897/2059 https://askubuntu.com/a/1365822/2059 to be particularly helpful in getting all the wee bits working right -- as near as I can tell. For what it's worth, summarized here, the latest iteration of my experiments in installing: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream sudo apt full-upgrade sudo apt install libspa-0.2-bluetooth sudo apt install pipewire-audio-client-libraries systemctl --user daemon-reload systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket systemctl --user mask pulseaudio systemctl --user --now enable pipewire-media-session.service systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse sudo rm /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf sudo apt reinstall pipewire pipewire-pulse