Isn't Linux Mint still based on Ubuntu? How did they fix the problem of
having to log out and back in to get a talking installer that Ubuntu has
yet to fix? Ubuntu 21.10 needs to take a page from the Linux Mint
playbook to make their installer talk without having to go through the
work-around logout login procedure to get it talking. I myself would
look at Mint, but I'm not fond of the Debian base. That doesn't preclude
my installation of this distro for others, as I have been known to
install Ubuntu for its ease of use, although I'm more partial to Fedora
Linux these days, especially since it includes flatpak out of the box,
and snapd can be installed quite easily. I actually have a couple of
snaps working here without any issues.
First, to get to the panel with the system tray, you usually hold down
the alt and control keys and press the tab key repeatedly until you hear
"top panel." But if I remember correctly, Mint has no top panel, only
the bottom one, so your system tray is there. So if you never hear "top
panel," just go to the bottom panel and you're good.
The sound issue is caused by a conflict between more than one user
trying to access sound at the same time. The conflict appears to be a
race condition where the first user's sound session doesn't get killed
fast enough, so the second user is blocked from using the sound device.
This usually is not a problem using Pulseaudio, but for some reason
Pipewire still has this problem. I switched up mine on Arch and I see
the same thing, even running a talking login screen and then logging in
as my normal user on a single-user system. Again, I only saw this when I
switched that system to pipewire and installed the pipewire-pulse or
pipewire-pulseaudio package, so it sounds like this may be what Mint is
doing. It should be possible to resolve the issue using regular
pulseaudio. If pulseaudio is already installed and this problem is still
occurring, I'm not sure where to look next, unless you can set up a
session wrapper script that will kill the user's running pulseaudio when
that user logs out, which should happen automatically, but may not be
happening early enough. I hope this helps.
~Kyle
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