Steve,
Thanks for the rapid response.
[AS]
> >My ctwm setup was clobbered when I moved to Fedora 37 because
> >pulseaudio is being replaced by pipewire, and I invoke pulseaudio both
> >in .ctwmrc (starting up audio) and in menus, e.g. invokin the
> >pulseaudio control panel.
>
[SL]
> Why not just use ALSA? That's what I do, and except for a few snowflake
> programs like Zoom, everything works fine.
Actually zoom is essential for me (and my next invited zoom talk will be later
this month).
(For anyone curious I'm proposing new ideas about evolution of spatial
intelligence, at least in vertebrates:
Incomplete notes for talk:
https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/evo-devo.html
)
Zoom stopped working in fedora 35 several weeks ago, so I started (hairy and
complex) process of switching to CentOS, which still supports zoom.
But I can't stand the CentOS user interface, and I don't think I'll have time to
install ctwm and the poplog system (especially its programmable editor Ved --
which I much prefer to Emacs and all other editors I've tried),
So when I heard that access to zoom was fixed in F37, I thought I should upgrade
to that. But since then (a few days ago) audio has been broken, which seems to
have been a result of pulseaudio breaking, though I'm not sure whether it's
something else on whic pulse depends.
But f37 has somehow clobbered audio for me so I can't use zoom anyway at the
moment.
The short answer to your proposal is that I have a ctwm + window handling setup
constructed a *long* time ago (I can't recall when I last had to change anything
(apart from occasionally adding or removing menu items).
Changing to something different will be very painful and slow.
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For audio:
I used a 'startpulse' command defined to do this:
systemctl start --user pulseaudio
though I can't recall where or why I chose that.
For many years pulseaudio worked. Usually in such cases I copy something that
has been found by someone else to work, though I can't now recall who or what my
informaton source was.
But it doesn't work (for me) in F37.
Is there a simple answer to the question:
How do I replace pulseaudio (including its menus) with alsa ?
Simple enough to get working before my next talk, alongside a collection of
other urgent tasks that need to be finished soon?
Aaron
