IanQ
27 September 2021 05:33
1
Hey all!
So, I’ve got a problem:
my Spotify and pa-applet are really slow to respond to commands. For example, I will press a button to change song, play a song, etc. and Spotify won’t respond immediately. Same with Pa-applet
my volume control buttons have stopped working. They used to work
I assume it is related to a giant update I yesterday (or maybe day before?) In any case, I’m not sure where this issue belongs. I believe that it has impact on other software but I haven’t found any yet.
Spotify is installed via snap, and pa-applet is the “default” or from AUR
ha same problem here spotify is very slow and unoptimised what you can do is use the web side until it is optimised for linux
also try reinstalling
or an ssd can make your job easy.
The volume keys issue is mentioned on the AUR page for pa-applet.
IanQ
27 September 2021 16:00
4
This issue is new. It has been working fine on my end for a few years now
IanQ
27 September 2021 16:01
5
Ahh, gotcha, thanks. I thought the issue might be something else since my volume has also been funky (slow response)
Package pa-applet
is not a default package for i3wm and has not been updated in Manjaro repository since 2018. Most of the code on the github page appears to be over 10 years old
For audio keyboard controls you might want to consider installing pulseaudio-ctl
For i3wm you might also want to install pulsemixer
instead of the usual mixer pavucontrol
Manjaro i3 does not have PulseAudio installed by default, but many i3 users choose to install it later
PulseAudio latest update was released over a month ago. If you have been updating regularly PulseAudio packages would not have been changed by latest updates
please post system information
inxi -Fazy
and information about all running audio services
systemctl --user list-unit-files | grep -E 'pulseaudio|pipewire' | awk '{print $1,"- " $2}'
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IanQ
27 September 2021 22:24
7
I installed pulseaudio-ctl
(but have not configured it yet), and installed pulsemixer
. I tend to end up using pulseaudio
anyways mostly because I can select various outputs, etc.
System Information
System:
Kernel: 5.10.68-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=9e3b4943-484c-496a-96e5-f77332a5ee72 rw quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=356a892c-5faf-40ad-8390-87136197c78f:luks-356a892c-5faf-40ad-8390-87136197c78f
root=/dev/mapper/luks-356a892c-5faf-40ad-8390-87136197c78f apparmor=1
security=apparmor
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-3a10c31f-a484-4488-b766-df5682e3261f
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: i3 4.19.1 info: i3bar vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: MAXIMUS IX APEX v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 1301 date: 03/14/2018
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: EA
cache: L2: 8 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 67224
Speed: 4227 MHz min/max: 800/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4227 2: 4084
3: 3983 4: 2111 5: 2327 6: 4418 7: 1531 8: 4434
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5912 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation AUSDOM FHD Camera type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: 1bcf:2286
class-ID: 0102
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: compton driver:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: HDMI-2 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96 size: 509x286mm (20.0x11.3")
diag: 584mm (23")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: C-Media CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] vendor: ASUSTeK CMI8786
driver: snd_oxygen v: kernel bus-ID: 05:04.0 chip-ID: 13f6:8788
class-ID: 0401
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation AUSDOM FHD Camera type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: 1bcf:2286
class-ID: 0102
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.68-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.37 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: f040 bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
v: kernel port: f040 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0030 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wg-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: f060
bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.2822 rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 182.48 GiB (19.1%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 PRO 1TB
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QEXP7 temp: 35.9 C scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 919.51 GiB size: 904 GiB (98.31%) used: 182.48 GiB (20.2%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-356a892c-5faf-40ad-8390-87136197c78f
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 34.35 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: luks-3a10c31f-a484-4488-b766-df5682e3261f
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 280 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.23 GiB
used: 3.22 GiB (10.3%) Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1316 pacman: 1295 lib: 318 snap: 21 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8
running-in: terminator inxi: 3.3.06
My audio services
pipewire-media-session.service - enabled
pipewire.service - disabled
pulseaudio-x11.service - static
pulseaudio.service - disabled
pipewire.socket - enabled
pulseaudio.socket - enabled
Data in inxi
appears to indicate that Pipewire is not running, but the 2 systemd services and the socket are shown as enabled in systemctl
data
I suggest you disable the pipewire services and mask the pipewire.socket to prevent it restarting
systemctl --user disable --now pipewire-media-session.service
systemctl --user disable --now pipewire.{socket,service} && systemctl --user mask pipewire.socket