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List:       fedora-desktop-list
Subject:    Re: pipewire -- firefox keeps getting lost
From:       Matthew Miller <mattdm () fedoraproject ! org>
Date:       2021-02-24 19:18:43
Message-ID: 20210224191843.GA5090 () mattdm ! org
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 07:40:01PM +0100, Lukas Ruzicka wrote:
> Yeah, this is the option to set it as a default device :) Funny, ain't it?
> 
> I think it has something to do with the options to set specific devices for
> specific applications on the "Playback" tab. This way, you could route your
> Firefox sounds through a different device and your Rhythmbox music through
> another one. I have tried, it's splendid. When, however, such a device does
> not exist, the playback returns to the default (fallback) one. If the
> fallback one disappears, but another is present, it would fallback to that
> present device, so your system should never remain soundless.

Yeah, I definitely see why that would be awesome if that's what I wanted to
do.

I think maybe this is happening when I come back and the screen has been
asleep. Maybe the external USB sound device is also sleeping, and so appears
to not exist temporarily, causing the system to, well, _fall back_ to the
other available non-default device. Since that's not plugged into anything
with speakers, that means the system goes soundless after all.

So maybe I just have a weird case here.

> > so that should solve my immediate problem. (There are also Realtek USB
> > audio devices, which are the front and rear audio jacks on the system,
> > but those were _already_ Off, through no known action of mine.)
> 
> It is probably clever enough to recognize no output speaker is connected to
> it and therefore it is inactive.

This totally makes sense -- the Navi 10 audio, the one Firefox ends up
pointing to, is connected by HDMI, and plugged into a monitor. Not sure if
there's a way for the system to know that that monitor has no sound output
options.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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