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yunuses

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Registered: 2021-02-11

Posts: 9

Spotify buggy in i3wm

First of all, idk if this is an Arch related or i3wm related issue, so tell me if the post is in the wrong place, and I'll take it down.

My issue is the title, I can't change the song, no progress bar, no playlists loading, it closes 1 minute after I closed it etc. I tried spotify, spotify-dev and spotify-snap packages from AUR, flatpak version and snap version of Spotify. No good. Do you have an issue like this, what to do?

Thanks in advance.

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Spotify buggy in i3wm

What makes you think it s an i3wm issue? If spotify behaves strange, i'd say it is an spotify issue.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Spotify buggy in i3wm

How are you starting i3? If via startx/.xinitrc make sure you follow the template and the notes from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc . Which graphics driver/adapter are you using? If intel and you have xf86-video-intel installed try removing that and potentially manually created xorg.configs referencing the "intel" driver. It has some known issues and specifically so with chromium/electron clients.

yunuses

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Registered: 2021-02-11

Posts: 9

Re: Spotify buggy in i3wm

What makes you think it s an i3wm issue? If spotify behaves strange, i'd say it is an spotify issue.

I have KDE plasma as well and Spotify is okay there. So I thought it is likely an issue with i3wm.

How are you starting i3? If via startx/.xinitrc make sure you follow the template and the notes from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc . Which graphics driver/adapter are you using? If intel and you have xf86-video-intel installed try removing that and potentially manually created xorg.configs referencing the "intel" driver. It has some known issues and specifically so with chromium/electron clients.

I use sddm as I use KDE plasma. I removed xf86-video-intel and I've never created xorg configs but it's still buggy.

Last edited by yunuses (2021-03-11 20:29:22)