https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508170
--- Comment #7 from John Mickelonis <[email protected]> --- (In reply to pallaswept from comment #5) > Without knowing how your setup is wired, there's a strong likelihood that > the game audio should be passing through virtual devices, so that solution > would be OK for you. If you're playing on the same PC you're streaming from. It actually does pass through virtual devices, > > If you had the audio coming in via a hardware cable from another PC to a > line-in on your linux streaming PC (dual-PC streaming normal kind of setup) > this won't help, though. You could mark that device as virtual, and exclude > it from the Mic mute, but yeh, assuming all audio inputs are microphones is > incorrect... and there's no real way to programmatically tell them apart. I > mean, think of a hardware mic preamp that outputs into a line-level input on > the machine; it's a mic, physically, but as far as the system is concerned, > it's just a normal line-in. > > You might consider streaming the audio digitally from the game PC to the > stream PC in that case. It's better anyway, and it'd all be virtual devices. > > Still... making the "mic mute" key perform "force mute all input devices" is > a problem, as with making the "speaker mute" key perform "force mute all > output devices". > > > Honestly I liked the old behavior, where it just muted the default device. > > The new behaviour copies the old behaviour for sinks, which is "let's make > it uniform in behaviour" which makes sense... except the old behaviour for > sinks was also a problem (which nobody at KDE knew about until I brought it > up here, so this isn't really their fault)... so now it's uniformly a > problem. > > That'll be all fine when the solution is uniformly applied :) > > But yeh this is kinda old for such a serious bug report. I know it doesn't > effect everyone but it does effect several extremely common use-cases and > the effect is catastrophic. Is there anything we could do to help, Nate? (In reply to pallaswept from comment #6) > A workaround: > > - Open KDE System Settings > - Go to Keyboard... Shortcuts (or just start typing "shortcuts" to get > there the easy way) > - Click 'Add New' in the top right corner, and select 'Command or Script' > - In the command type: > - For mic mute: > wpctl set-mute @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SOURCE@ toggle > _ For speaker mute: > wpctl set-mute @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ toggle > - In 'Name' give it something useful for you. Click 'Add' > - In System Settings there is a column on the right Labelled 'Custom > shortcuts' and a button immediately below the title labelled 'Add'. Click > that. > - Now press your mute key or whatever you want to bind to mute the thing. > - You may be prompted that the key is already assigned to the normal > action, Click Reassign. > > Enjoy. It's not as nice as a real fix because it doesn't work in the GUI > input elements, but it'll get your ability to stream and voice call and > stuff. This is perfect, thank you! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
