Vincent Chernin

``` [E][03112.004890][ module-rtkit.c: 158 pw_rtkit_bus_get_system()] Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory [W][03112.004895][ module-rtkit.c: 585 pipewire__module_init()] could not get system...

> The problem of this solution is that we can't enable the service. It would be useful to enable and disable it on user choice, so maybe we could do...

Ok, so I've discovered something that might be useful. With [the Flatpak](https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/2429), you can enter the sandbox where EasyEffects is in with: `flatpak run --command=sh --devel com.github.wwmm.easyeffects` From there you...

Ok, so I've thrown together a rudimentary but as far as I can tell reliable checker: ```sh #!/bin/sh # this checks the PipeWire version on the host, and then compares...

Through some strange luck I was browsing the PipeWire repo and found this: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1515 @wwmm I would definitely read that if you can. I think we should check PipeWire versions...

Or maybe instead of doing version comparisons, EasyEffects should give a user-friendly error if it could not start up properly. Essentially this achieves the same goal, but also ensures we...

> And in his case I do not see how the check would have helped. At this moment our minimum required version is `0.3.31`. If I understood it right the...

At least the above method won't work for Flatpak: I have 0.3.33 on my Fedora 34 system. 0.3.31 is used at build time. 

> I am not sure if we should "give an error" in the usual sense. It still may work so I would say it would be a warning. Sure, I...

As mentioned above I am not entirely sure how Flatpak works here, it is beyond my knowledge about it. I do know if you enter the Flatpak sandbox you can...