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I want to run PipeWire as a system user and have multiple login users access it. My current hack is to run it as one login user and then do something like:
Where
1001
is the user ID. Is there a cleaner approach?You could utilize the server/client functionality over the local network instead of using the same process.
So you could point the other users to the machine's local address and they would automatically find the Pipewire server. Maybe? I guess? It's just a theory.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Sharing_audio_devices_with_computers_on_the_network
This thread seems to have what you're looking for.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=265878
According to the thread, its possible to provide system-wide usage by enabling this option at build time:
Or it seems like you could share it over the local network by editing the Pipewire config file and making an environment variable. (See post #5.)
Or you could
according to post #8.
Note: it seems like Pipewire runs on port 4713. So the server would run on 0.0.0.0:4713, I guess.