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hamhock

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[SOLVED] Gnome, Pipewire, Pulseaudio - how to remove Pulseaudio

I have a new Thnikpad X1 Carbon (gen 9) with a fresh install of arch. After exiting chroot, I installed Pipewire and then Gnome. I had assumed I could run Gnome with Pipewire and pipewire-alsa and without pulseaudio - but it seems Gnome has to have pulseaudio. I noticed when I installed Gnome, it seemed to have installed additional packages related to my installing Pipewire first, e.g., pipewire-jack, wireplumber, etc.  Shoud I just pacman -Rns Gnome Pipewire and then reinstall Gnome? Being a fresh install, I'd prefer no additional packages that don't add any useful functionality - or worse - cause possible conflicts.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome, Pipewire, Pulseaudio - how to remove Pulseaudio

it seems Gnome has to have pulseaudio

No, it doesn't.

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hamhock

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome, Pipewire, Pulseaudio - how to remove Pulseaudio

when I try to remove pulseaudio, it fails due to breaking dependency with "gnome-settings-daemon."

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome, Pipewire, Pulseaudio - how to remove Pulseaudio

The pipewire-pulse package will satisfy that dependency: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p … BUILD#L309

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hamhock

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome, Pipewire, Pulseaudio - how to remove Pulseaudio

that works - thank you.