When using pipewire, the sound module causes delays in status bar loading

[invader-zimm]

I'm on Artix Linux, using pipewire instead of pulseaudio. If I add a sound block to the status bar and I start i3wm, 9 times out of 10, i3status_rust takes about 3-4 seconds to load/display. The block seems to function as expected, the only issue I see is the noticeable delay in loading the status bar. If I remove the sound block, the status bar loads almost instantaneously. Before switching to pipewire, loading was also very fast.

I have installed these packages pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse and in .xinitrc I have

/usr/bin/pipewire&
/usr/bin/pipewire-pulse&
/usr/bin/wireplumber&
exec i3

The block setup in config.toml is pretty basic:

[[block]]
block = "sound"
driver = "pulseaudio"
on_click = "pavucontrol"
headphones_indicator = true

Can anyone else reproduce this issue? Any idea what exactly causes that delay? Thanks.

[MaxVerevkin]

Which version do you use? (i3status-rs -V)

[ammgws]

If you comment out those lines in xinitrc (other than i3), and instead start them up each in a separate terminal without backgrounding them, can you still reproduce the issue? (I guess you will have to kill i3bar bar first) If so then there might be some interesting info in the terminal running pipewire-pulse

[invader-zimm]

I am using i3status-rs 0.22.0.

If I do this:

1. edit .xinitrc to contain only "exec i3"
2. start i3 and kill i3bar
3. from separate terminals, start pipewire, pipewire-pulse and wireplumber
4. start i3bar

then I don't really see the delay, or at least it's not noticeable. I don't see any errors regarding pipewire in the terminals, everything seems to initialize and start without problems.

[ammgws]

Hmm not sure what else to try then. My initial thought was that pipewirse-pulse was only loading for the first time after i3status-rs initiated the pulseaudio connection, but if that were the case it should be reproducable.

Do you get the same delay with the sound block (bar itself should load instantly) with git master?

[invader-zimm]

Using i3status-rs from git requires compilation, right? I don't know how to compile rust from source, I'm looking into that. The build I'm using comes from the Arch repos.

But I can say with certainty that it's the sound block causing the delay. It doesn't happen all the time, maybe 8-9 times out of 10 and it takes between 1 and 4-ish seconds ¯_(o_o)_/¯

[GladOSkar]

Using i3status-rs from git requires compilation, right?

Yes it does, but with rust it's not that hard :) check out https://rustup.rs/ to install the toolchain and then run cargo build in the repo :)

[MaxVerevkin]

I'm pretty sure this is fixed on master.