I'll make a gist next time, but it was even things like clj complaining about not having an S3 transport. So much seemed broken. It is an experimental machine so I might wipe it and start over. I'll get the messages that are there first in case it is something easy

Or helpful

:thinking_face: curious to see anyway

tried it in nix (my daily driver where clojure does work) and couldn't connect to supercollider https://gist.github.com/otfrom/f594a8b979e25bb5608cb7d84ee73154

sound is (usually) fine on that machine, though it was generally a bit flaky connecting bluetooth/google meet today. A reboot fixed that though

can you see if there's a package that provides pw-jack?

[nix-shell:~/src/happy-vibes]$ pw-jack
The program 'pw-jack' is not in your PATH. You can make it available in an
ephemeral shell by typing:
  nix-shell -p pipewire

hmm... just did the nix-shell -p pipewire and I still can't find pw-jack

[scynth] jack server is not running or cannot be started

this is essentially what it does

LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/usr/${LIB}/pipewire-0.3/jack'"${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"}"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

ok. Sounds basically like my sound config which is fine for youtube and video conferencing isn't set up properly yet (not too surprising)

I'll have another go later

thx for reading the error msgs and making sense of them

It's complicated (as linux sound usually is). Pipewire can mimic both pulseaudio and jack, most desktop stuff will use it as a pulseaudio client. Jack is mostly just used for pro-audio stuff.

ah, that would explain why the jack side of things isn't working as well

for me without pw-jack I would have to do something like this

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pipewire-0.3/jack"

ok

so if you can figure out the equivalent that could work

I'm going to have a read of this: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/JACK

yeah they're basically saying the same thing > Connecting nix JACK clients to Pipewire installed via other package managers

> Pipewire offers a JACK API, but applications installed via nix are not able to connect to it out of the box. > > Use the following command to make them work (using qsynth as an example):

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(nix build nixpkgs#pipewire.jack --print-out-paths)/lib" nix run nixpkgs#qsynth

IIUC scynth is the bit that needs to be wrapped by jackWrap

not clj or java

but I'll have a dig later. Other work calls today, but I thought I'd poke it as I was wondering if it was going to be quick

it should inherit the environment, so prefixing clj with that LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be fine, but you can try starting scsynth manually and connecting to it from overtone.

I'm also busy with some other stuff, but I'll get you some more pointers. You can configure the scsynth executable in ~/.overtone/config.clj, so you can also use that to point at your own wrapper script

actually, I think this is the bit I need to dig through here: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/PipeWire

I'm going to wait a bit before I do it as I don't want to wreck my sound set up on my work machine when I have a lot of meetings 😄

smart 🙈

those are some great wiki pages! Might link to them from the overtone wiki. I knew Arch wiki was a good place to check but didn't think of looking at nix.

so in ~/.overtone/config.clj you can configure a :sc-path, so you can make a script like this, e.g. ~/bin/pw-scsynth.sh

#!/bin/sh

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(nix build nixpkgs#pipewire.jack --print-out-paths)/lib"

exec scsynth "$@"

;; ~/.overtone/config.clj
{,,,
 :sc-path "/home/otfrom/bin/pw-scsynth.sh"
}