Plasma shows “Failed to connect to PipeWire”

[nikgnomic]

@ZeR0ByTe

Maybe someone could guide me on how to completely uninstall everything related to PipeWire and reinstall PulseAudio instead.

PipeWire is a multimedia server (video and audio) and cannot be uninstalled completely on KDE.

Metapackage manjaro-pulse installs 3 packages to replace pipewire-pulse and pipewire-alsa that can also be installed discretely:

pamac install pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth

But further intervention is likely to be needed to get PulseAudio working and stop error messages from kpipewire

Previous post suggests that switching audio servers will not prevent error messages from kpipewire and package cannot be removed

@Persephone

|5/28/24 7:52 AM|plasmashell|kpipewire_logging: error: Failed to connect to PipeWire 0|
|5/28/24 7:52 AM|plasmashell|received error while creating the stream Failed to connect to PipeWire Media monitor will not work.|

I am using PulseAudio, not Pipewire. I tried to uninstall kpipewire, but I recieved a message that kpipewire was required for kde plasma to work.

I suggest:

1. Switch to testing branch

   sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch
   

2. Update system to get latest version of kpipewire (6.4.5-2)

3. Check journal for kpipewire_logging errors

4. If kpipewire errors persist, contact Matrix - KDE User Help or Help - KDE Discuss