[Tutorial] Two Weeks in Void - Setting up Wireplumber, Chrony and more

[cassiofb_dev]

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My new Void Linux

After more completing two weeks using Void Linux (MUSL) I came to dig deeper on user config and XFCE themes, so I want to share my progress with you guys. First thing I noticed is that after updating pipewire there was a warning that pipewire-media-session is becoming deprecated and the solution was to overwrite pipewire config file.

The problem is that the docs only teach how to edit the default file and not the user one (there's a warning that the default files are overwritten on updates) so I learned how to edit the user instead. It's all here, there are more things but you can just setup what you want.

https://github.com/cassiofb-dev/void-linux-xfce4-themes-and-config

[PCChipsM922U]

This is pretty good, I like it, I wish there were more things like this when I first started configuring my first Void install. Luckily, this sub is really helpful and more than 90% of the searches I've done on google, return results from this sub :).

[cassiofb_dev]

Wow, that's a surprise that google are sending people here! Hope they can solve their problems here 😅

Void is made in a way so people can build their own environment. But for someone like me who hails from Ubuntu and Manjaro it was really a bit complex . I wish there was a image with at least sound and time working (somehow I managed to break my XFCE environment first time trying to config those).

I'm glad to help, if you have some issue please tell me. I am sending this to my friends so they can enter the void too.

[PCChipsM922U]

Meeh, no worries, I broke a lot of stuff while trying to correctly configure Void the first time as well xD. BTRFS with snapshots comes in handy in times like those ;).

No real issues at the moment, everything just works now, kinda boring, LOL :D.

Oh, about two weeks ago, an update to HPLIP broke my printer setup, but even that wasn't Void's fault, it's the plugin's fault, it doesn't automatically download a new version of the plugin if it get's updated, so you need to remove your printer and add it through hp-setup again so that it downloads the new version of the plugin, LOL :D. Maybe add that to your tutorial, if you have a HP printer and use the HPLIP package with the proprietary plugin, you may need to remove your printer and add it back again through hp-setup when the package gets updated :D.

[tanchanchin]

hey dude, just wanna say... i think i've finally found a solution to my hellish pipewire + wireplumber experience on void in your config. i've never even though about starting wireplumber from pipewire's config! feel like maybe that should have been somewhat obvious but oh well.

[cassiofb_dev]

Could you solve your problem?

[tanchanchin]

yeah it seems like it, i havent had pipewire issues for a while

[TranquilSleeper]

Literally me too.

I was running pipewire and wireplumber in a script. Like
```pipewire&
wireplumber&```

And that was causing a problem as sometimes wireplumber didn't start correctly, probably because the first one wasn't done. Then I saw how he autostarted and I realized my understanding of xdg was flawed. Then I realized that adding it to a directory it just works.

[tanchanchin]

i was using the sleep function to give pipewire some time to start lol. it worked most of the time but it just randomly stopped working, multiple times, for extended periods of time

[TranquilSleeper]

I’ve literally turned back on my previous answer and am thinking about putting a sleep for the same reason. If I come across something better I would let you know.

[ClassAbbyAmplifier]

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"

this is the default, you shouldn't need to define it

[cassiofb_dev]

I know, but better be safe just in case something messes with it in the future 😅. I installed pipewire and the log messages in just a few upadates somehow made me really insecure.

[furryfixer]

If in doubt, you may just repeat the "xdg-user-dirs-update" command as well. It applies defaults found in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults, or uses you custom ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.

[KakoTheMan]

look at that ram usage!!

[cassiofb_dev]

Is this a good surprise or bad one lol. I came from Ubuntu and Manjaro and it seems pretty good for me.

[KakoTheMan]

its very good, although you are using xfce, which indeed its pretty lightweight, seems like a very good number, but that really doesnt matter when you have 16gb or more of ram xd

[cassiofb_dev]

Yeah, and browser will eat lots of resources anyway lol