On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:53:41 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" <gtwilliams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A few weeks ago I installed F32-KDE fresh on a workstation (a disk > drive failed). All of a sudden last night Portal service was started > (whatever that is). I did nothing that I know of to trigger this. > Furthermore, since updating after installing this system, that service > has never been started until now. > > Directly after the Portal service started, I see error messages coming > from pipewire (whatever that is). xdg-desktop-portal.x86_64 : Portal frontend service to flatpak Summary : Media Sharing Server Description : PipeWire is a multimedia server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems. > > Can anyone tell me what this is all about and why it happens now? I don't know for sure, but it looks like Portal monitors sites (like flathub) on the web, and when there are updates, launches itself and pipewire. There is probably a default conf file somewhere that controls its behavior. Since it is a systemd service (from your output), you should be able to mask it if you never want it to run. That will probably take care of pipewire starting as well. It seems that a lot of dependencies were not installed with it, as all the failures attest. If you want to use it, you should probably reinstall it so the necessary dependencies for it to function are pulled in. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
