https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437666
Bug ID: 437666
Summary: [PipeWire] plasma-pa automatically selected an
inactive device to be the default microphone
Product: plasma-pa
Version: 5.21.90
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: now...@gmail.com
Reporter: n...@kde.org
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
I'm using Fedora 34 which ships with PipeWire in full PulseAudio compatibility
mode. My Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga laptop exposes two recording devices: one for
the built-in microphone array, and one for the line in/headphone jack.
The headphone jack device is inactive until and unless a headphone device is
plugged in. The applet therefore does not show it at all, and the KCM only
shows it if you click Show Inactive Devices"
However, this inactive headphone jack device was selected as the default
microphone. As a result, the first time I tried to record audio, it did not
work, and the applet was no help because it was not actually showing the
inactive device that was incorrectly selected as the default!
I had to go into the KCM, show inactive devices, and then figure out that the
inactive microphone device was being used as the default one. Picking the
active device to be the default input fixed everything, and now that setting is
persistent, so all is fine.
However, it was still a problem that the initial default device was set to an
inactive device.
Possible an upstream issue, but I thought I'd report this here first just in
case it's our fault somehow.
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