Ok, I found the issue, actually two things:
- there was a post-update PipeWire vs PulseAudio issue, as others were facing too
- there is an issue with how Manjaro packages things, which makes it less obvious what to install or remove
What should have worked, was to fully switch to PipeWire:
But this didn’t work, for the same reason, that sudo pacman -S pipewire-pulse failed:
looking for conflicting packages...
:: pipewire-pulse-1:1.4.1-0 and pulseaudio-17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-pulse-1:1.4.1-0 and manjaro-pulse-20240817-1 are in conflict. Remove manjaro-pulse? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth
sudo pacman -Rns pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth didn’t work either
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulse-native-provider' required by deepin-camera
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulse-native-provider' required by gnome-settings-daemon
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio' required by manjaro-pulse
:: removing pulseaudio-bluetooth breaks dependency 'pulseaudio-bluetooth' required by manjaro-pulse