pipewire-pulse(1)

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version 1.6.11 · 13 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ pipewire-pulse — the PipeWire PulseAudio glow-up ✨

okay bestie, so this is the pipewire-pulse manual page, and it's literally the moment your audio life gets its main character arc 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

pipewire-pulse — the PipeWire PulseAudio replacement. yes, the whole thing. she's a drop-in, she's iconic, she's here.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pipewire-pulse [options]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she do? pipewire-pulse starts up a PulseAudio-compatible daemon that plugs right into the PipeWire media server — and the way she does it is by running a pipewire process through a systemd service 🔥

and the key lore: this daemon is a drop-in replacement for the PulseAudio daemon. no cap. your PulseAudio stuff just... works. periodt ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -h | --help — show help. when you're lost, she's got you 🥺
  • -v | --verbose — cranks the verbosity up by one level. and here's the fun part: you can pass this multiple times. stack 'em. go feral. each one adds another level 👑
  • --version — show version info. know your queen's number 💅
  • -c | --config=FILE — load the config file you point at. default is pipewire-pulse.conf 🌸

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

first off: the generic pipewire(1) environment variables are supported too. but there's more:

  • PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH — yeah she's listed here, that's the entry bestie 🫶
  • XDG_RUNTIME_DIR — this is the directory where the native protocol pulseaudio socket gets created 🎀
  • PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC — extra buffering latency, measured in milliseconds. this one controls the buffering logic inside libpulse, and PulseAudio client apps can set it to tweak their own buffering 🔥
wait, important: setting PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC on the pipewire-pulse server does nothing. zero. zilch. no effect at all. it's a client-side thing, iykyk 💀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The PipeWire Developers — hit them up at <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>, and PipeWire itself lives at <https://pipewire.org> 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read those too, they're giving lore ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was PipeWire version 1.6.11, served up fresh from the PipeWire crew — slay, stream, and may your audio never crackle again 🎧✨ periodt.

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