Pipewire does more then just audio, it can handle video stuff, and that is what its being used for in this case On Mon, Aug 2, 2021, 12:43 AM Javier via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello ! > > I do understand pipewire is required on wayland to be able to share the > desktop. Is its audio component required as well for desktop sharing on > wayland? I'm talking future wise, and mainly about some applications which > allows audio and video conferencing as well as desktop sharing, like zoom, > slack and perhaps webrtc. If its audio component is not required, is it > possible at all to let pipewire without its audio components? Would it be > enough to avoid installing its alsa and pulse plugins? Any additional > configuration required? > > I have avoided using pulse, and I really don't want to use pipewire audio > component either. I might have to use pipewire if moving to wayland in the > future for whatever reason. I have hybrid used cases for audio. On the > desktop of course, but also headless, since I also left boxes playing music > without anyone logged in (I log in, make mpd play a list, and log out), and > I times go back and forth from being logged in and logged out, and not > necessarily I log to the desktop, just console or ssh connections might be > enough to start playing music on mpd. Plain alsa does great for these > hybrid use model. There are as well other non common gnu+linux midi > frameworks which do well, like sndio, but pulse-audio and pipewire don't. > > Thanks ! > > -- > Javier > >
