PipeWire
To use PipeWire, install the pipewire
package.
pipewire(1) should be started as a user.
Use the autostarting mechanism of your desktop environment or
startx. The pipewire
package provides
pipewire
and pipewire-pulse
system services, but they are not recommended
for a typical setup.
PulseAudio replacement
PipeWire can start a PulseAudio server. While it's possible to modify
pipewire.conf(5) for auto-starting
the PulseAudio server, it's recommended to start it from the same place where
you start PipeWire by executing pipewire-pulse
. This keeps the PipeWire
configuration file unmodified for smoother future upgrades.
Before starting pipewire-pulse
, make sure that the PulseAudio service is
disabled and that no other PulseAudio
server instance is running.
To check if the replacement is working correctly, use
pactl(1) (provided by the
pulseaudio-utils
package):
$ pactl info
[...]
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.18)
[...]
Bluetooth audio
For bluetooth audio to work, install the libspa-bluetooth
package.
ALSA integration
Install alsa-pipewire
, then enable the PipeWire ALSA device and make it the
default:
# mkdir -p /etc/alsa/conf.d
# ln -s /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pipewire.conf /etc/alsa/conf.d
# ln -s /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/99-pipewire-default.conf /etc/alsa/conf.d
JACK replacement
Install libjack-pipewire
.
Use pw-jack(1) to launch JACK clients manually:
$ pw-jack <application>
Alternatively, override the library provided by libjack
(see
ld.so(8)). The following approach will work
on glibc-based systems:
# echo "/usr/lib/pipewire-0.3/jack" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/pipewire-jack.conf
# ldconfig
Troubleshooting
The Pulseaudio replacement requires the
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
environment
variable to work correctly.