Re: lxqt crashing

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On 2023-10-18 19:10, Jason Bacon wrote:
> On 10/5/23 15:23, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> > The alternate workaround is to enable the pulseaudio option for the
> > lxqt-panel package. The volume plugin then starts on recent NetBSD; I
> > just confirmed that's the case with 10.99.9. (Now, I'm not offering an
> > opinion on what the best choice is here feature-wise, only pointing 
> > out
> > that it doesn't kill the panel.)
>
> This was a helpful hint.
>
> As a workaround, I simply added the following to options.mk:
>
> PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS.NetBSD=   pulseaudio
>
> This will enable pulseaudio on NetBSD by default, which prevents the
> crashes on NetBSD 10.  Alsa was already enabled by default on Linux.

That's what I would have done, too. :) Thanks.

> I'm fuzzy on whether lxqt should need an audio plugin at all, but
> pulseaudio is enabled unconditionally in lxqt-panel-1.3.0nb3, the
> previous working commit, so removing it was what broke the package.

Well, in order to have a working volume control, the audio plugin is
necessary.

Thanks,

Dave