On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 18:02 +0000, Alek Zikon wrote: > Everytime audio or video starts playing on WebkitGTK-based browsers > (epiphany, next), the system volume is maxed out. This happens when > you start the audio or video by clicking on the play button and also > when audio or videos are played automatically (in a playlist, or ad > videos, for example). > > This issue has been reported before upstream, but epiphany people say > the source of the problem is in pulsaudio defaults on distros ( > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/issues/73): > > Thanks for reporting this issue. You'll need to ask Debian to > disable > PulseAudio's flat volumes feature, as is done by all other major > distributions (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, openSUSE, probably more), > since we're not going to make any changes here. > > I found that there is a related pulsaudio bug reported on Guix ( > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38172). Unfortunately, this issue > is still open. > > Epiphany people say you, as a user, can work around the issue by > setting "flat-volumes = no in your /etc/pulse/daemon.conf." What's > the correct way to this on the Guix System? > > > I'm using this software: > > epiphany 3.30.4 > WebKitGTK+ 2.26.1 > GNOME 3.30.2 > > $ guix describe > Generation 16 Jan 03 2020 14:36:37 (current) > guix 7158fe4 > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > branch: master > commit: 7158fe4ded47a599ceb8d556132ba83fcc686962 > CC-ing https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38172
