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[arizonajoe]

GUI window immovable and not sizable, but seemingly everything else works.
Nothing unusual about my setup, although I do have the pipewire framework installed. ( I can't imagine this would affect window size parameters and movement).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.





Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.13.13-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

[bob]

GUI window immovable and not sizable, but seemingly everything else works.
Nothing unusual about my setup, although I do have the pipewire framework installed. ( I can't imagine this would affect window size parameters and movement).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.





Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.13.13-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

No idea what pipewire is but you might try
Tools->Options->Tree and View->Advanced->Reset window position settings.
If you can't get to Tools, use control-O to bring up options.

[mattkhan]

https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

Can be a replacement for pulse

[bob]

https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

Can be a replacement for pulse

Thanks for the info!

[arizonajoe]

I tried out Pipewire.  I have an ASUS Z170 (older) motherboard with the stock sound card circuit topology.  Pipewire turned out to be a disaster, leaving me with very buggy sound.  Pipewire also added about eight volume sliders named "Pro-Audio" within the Audio Volume applet in Plasma-KDE that did nothing. It made access to the digital audio stream from my NVIDIA GTX780Ti card* on HDMI#3 impossible for my Asus monitor to play low-level audio (non-critical listening audio) through the monitors cheap stock speakers.

I tried to remove Pipewire, but good luck with that.  It gets so bogged down with dependencies that no command I know of will remove it from the system.  It "wraps itself tight"  with files that are essential to so many other applications and would take hours to clean out.  Since I have my /home directory on a 12 Terabyte WD Enterprise Helio drive, I just wiped by nvme boot drive and reinstalled Arch/Plasma to get rid of it and then added other features over time to restore my system.

I get the feeling that once Pipewire is executed on newer electronics... the latest motherboards with more esoteric sound card circuitry, it will be quite good.  I'd like to learn more about it before I dare to use it.

[Mike Noe]

You could also just exec:

systemctl --user disable pipewire.service
systemctl --user disable pipewire-media-session.service
systemctl --user disable pipewire-alsa.service

FWIW, I've had it here on a couple Tumbleweed boxes since it showed in the repos and it has been very stable, not an issue with it.  I guess technically you might call it a beta, but they are dropping weekly releases that continue to improve the experience.