Make skype 4.3 and pulseaudio actually work

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Make skype 4.3 and pulseaudio actually work

Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:34 pm

We imagine you use one of the lite BBQ versions without dbus and stuff. Running skype 4.3 will show 'virtual device' as sound devices. fuck it.

- install dbus and dbus-x11
- change the .xinitrc to load your WM with dbus-launch:

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exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session WM_NAME
- update the system and get

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ins pulseaudio pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-x11
- edit as root

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nano /etc/pulse/default.pa
and comment/remove the line

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.fail
- the safest bet is to reboot the puter or restart X
- run pavucontrol and set your volume
- skype shall now work
- if not, in the aforementioned /etc/pulse/default.pa, uncomment

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#load-module module-x11-publish
Good luck, and fuck skype :(
..gnutella..

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