I am using the “aur” version because the default pacman package is flawed. It crashes when you open its window or when you start playing any audio. The aur version works good so it is not a big deal for me but this has been going on for many months now so i am curious if anybody else if having the same issue with the default package.
Both EasyEffects and JamesDSP suffer from being randomly killed by the system because they need real-time privilege to instantly process your audio (both input and output).
- remove any EasyEffects package installed from AUR,
- reinstall the package
easyeffectsfrom extra repo using pacman, - install package
realtime-privileges, - add your user to
realtimegroup, - and finally reboot.
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Wow was it really that easy 
I will try it.
Well that package was already installed and i was already in the realtime group. The issue is not that i guess because i just installed the pacman easyeffects (removed the aur one) and it still doesn’t start. KDE gives me a corner window and says this:
“Launching Easyeffects failed. Remote peer disconnected”.
If i start it from the command line:
easyeffects
[W][17:43:25.488562] pw.conf | [ conf.c: 1204 pw_conf_load_conf_for_context()] setting config.name to client-rt.conf is deprecated, using client.conf
(easyeffects:2049): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:43:25.567: Unable to acquire session bus: Could not connect: No such file or directory
/usr/include/fmt/base.h:437: assertion failed: negative valueAborted (core dumped)
Chatgpt says this:
**Problem**: The easyeffects binary was compiled **against fmt 11.1.4**, but is now being executed **against fmt 11.2.0**, which introduces ABI-breaking changes.
This could be right because if i build easyeffects from source, it runs. If i install the aur version, it also runs. The only suspicion is, this is not new. This has been happening for a long long time. So i dont know if fmt is the issue really.