Hello Brendan, Brendan Tildesley <m...@brendan.scot> writes: > I would like to replace pulseaudio with pipewire as the default in > %desktop-services, the only hurdle is how to launch the user daemons in all > the > different desktop configurations one might use. Other distros use systemd's > socket activation to magically launch pipewire. > > Otherwise XDG autostarts or some kind of guix home service could > launch it?
The main issue for PipeWire is that it really doesn't support running a single system-wide daemon as we're doing with PulseAudio, so you would need to launch it through XDG autostart, guix home or something similar like you said! One thing that I think is blocking right now is that PipeWire (or actually WirePlumber, I don't remember) would need to see some environment variables set by other user services eg. session D-Bus or even the compositor, which isn't possible yet with Shepherd. Best, -- Josselin Poiret
