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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

[Solved] custom hook to make starting firefox with alsa support easy

Since firefox is build without alsa support I am now running firefox through apulse from aur.
I manually edited /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop  , but this gets overwritten at every firefox update.

A custom hook could solve this, I would like some feedback.

Is this a valid use for  a custom hook ?
Should i put the sed command in a script instead of using Exec directly ?
Should firefox be listed as a Depends ?

# /etc/pacman.d/hooks/firefox-apulse.hook

[Trigger]
Type = File
Operation = Install
Operation = Upgrade
Target = usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

[Action]
Description = adjust firefox.desktop to start firefox with apulse providing alsa support
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/sed -i -e "s|Exec=/usr/lib/firefox/firefox|Exec=/usr/bin/apulse /usr/lib/firefox/firefox|" /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
Depends=sed

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2017-06-24 15:21:03)

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [Solved] custom hook to make starting firefox with alsa support easy

Er ... no.  Just put the desktop file in the right place to start with:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … tion_entry

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Alad

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Registered: 2014-05-04

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Re: [Solved] custom hook to make starting firefox with alsa support easy

Not that this would work anyway.

https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse/issue … -309243018

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: [Solved] custom hook to make starting firefox with alsa support easy

@Trilby :

using a user provided *.desktop-file feels much cleaner, thanks .
(freedesktop *.desktop specification is very hard to interpret with all it's exceptions) .

@Alad:
Haven't encountered that issue yet, either AL doesn't enable the sandboxing or sandboxing relies on something not active on my system .
(like rootless X or some systemd service)

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