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| author | Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com> | 2026-07-12 11:08:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com> | 2026-07-12 11:08:50 +0200 |
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diff --git a/articles/2025/Pipewire.html b/articles/2025/Pipewire.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..dd75885 --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/2025/Pipewire.html @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +<!doctype html> +<html lang="EN"> + <head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css"> + <title>Pipewire</title> + </head> + <body> + <header> + <h1>Bloggings</h1> + <a href="/index.php">Back</a> + + </header> + +<main> +<article> +<h2>Pipewire</h2> +<h3>2025-04-28</h3> +<h4>Fixing Thinkpad X220 microphone woes</h4> +<p>So with my nice new DWM installation I waltz into a Jitsi meeting only to find that my microphone +wasn't working even though it appeared to. Something was missing in pulseaudio after I removed XFCE4, or +wasn't taken into account in DWM. Then I noticed that Librewolf was looking for Pipewire. What?</p> +<p>Eventually I got it working, but the microphone was distorted and full of parasites. +<a href="/articles/2025/Microphone-distortion-on-Thinkpad-X220.html">Adding a module remap</a> to +turn the two laptop microphones into mono was a tad better but I decided go for the bleeding +edge and install Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio.</p> +<pre> +sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio +sudo pacman -S pipewire-{jack,alsa,pulse} +systemctl --user enable --now pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session +</pre> +<h4>Noise suppression</h4> +<pre> +git clone https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice.git +</pre> +<p>Follow the instructions at <a href="https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice">Noise suppression for Voice</a></p> +<p>In order to change the default source:</p> +<pre> +pactl list sources short +pactl set-default-source rnnoise_source +systemctl --user restart pipewire.service +</pre> +<p>And that's the best I'll probably ever get out of the internal X220 microphones.</p> +<p>Why not just use Alsa? Because I use a bluetooth headset and noise suppression.</p> +<p>Why not just use an external microphone? I've ordered one :-)</p> + +<h3>Bluetooth Autoconnect</h3> +<p>Just to add, Bluetooth Autoconnect was built for Pulseaudio but works fine with Pipewire.</p> +<p>Bluetooth autoconnect will connect any client that is paired and trusted, in my case a headset.</p> +<p>If you use Chaotic-Aur, pacman -S bluetooth-autoconnect will install it. Use yay -S bluetooth-autoconnect if not.</p> + +</article> +</main> +<footer> + +<p> </p> + +<p>ยง</p> + </footer> +</body> +</html> |