Update: I found a workaround by creating this small script: > #!/bin/sh > pw-play --media-role=event "$1" & and calling that instead of pw-play directly, so now Knotify can play as many sounds simultaneously as it wants. I guess this is solved, then? On Thursday 05 June 2025 01.09.41 Simon Stockhaus via tde-users wrote: > I want to play system notifications through Pipewire's pw-play due to > having some issues with ARtS (high CPU usage, volume spikes when playing > multiple sounds - I'll write a bug report later), but if I just specify > 'pw-play' as the player in the Knotify settings it only plays one sound at > a time, I'm presuming since it's run as a foreground process. I know that > you can add an '&' to the end of a command in the terminal to spawn it as a > background process, is there a way to do something similar here? 'pw-play > &' doesn't work since I'm assuming the file argument is appended to the end > (or if the sound data is passed through stdin, idk how this works). Help > would be appreciated. > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt >op.org |
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