Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

[Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 21:20 +0000, Michael wrote:
> Pipewire is the new sound server for KDE.  Take a look here in case
> yours 
> needs some tweaking:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire
> 
> I run on my main desktop with USE="-pulseaudio", but if you have any 
> applications which need pulseaudio you'll need to enable it, if you
> haven't 
> done this already.

You are supposed to have USE="pulseaudio" enabled globally for when you
use PipeWire for audio as well. Using libpulse to talk to the PipeWire
provided compatible daemon is the main way to get audio over to
PipeWire (when ignoring JACK).
Only a few things talk to pipewire directly with it's own API and
PipeWire upstream generally doesn't recommend doing so unless needing
the extra deeply technical things it allows over libpulse API.
If you have it disabled, you are likely using ALSA API, which PipeWire
should also end up handling (like pulseaudio did), but it has much less
features.


Mart