Running the WirePlumber Daemon

Configure PipeWire

PipeWire 0.3 comes with an example session manager that you will need to disable and replace with WirePlumber. This can be achieved by editing src/daemon/pipewire.conf.in in the PipeWire git tree or /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf in an existing installation:

diff --git a/src/daemon/pipewire.conf.in b/src/daemon/pipewire.conf.in
index b659d460..93299ec2 100644
--- a/src/daemon/pipewire.conf.in
+++ b/src/daemon/pipewire.conf.in
@@ -73,4 +73,4 @@ create-object spa-node-factory factory.name=support.node.driver node.name=Dummy
 # Execute the given program. This is usually used to start the
 # session manager. run the session manager with -h for options
 #
-exec pipewire-media-session # -d alsa-seq,alsa-pcm,bluez5,metadata
+exec wireplumber

This setup assumes that WirePlumber is installed on the target system. If you wish

Run independently or without installing

If you wish to debug WirePlumber, it may be useful to run it separately from PipeWire or run it directly from the source tree without installing. To do so:

1. Comment out with # the exec line from pipewire.conf
2. Run pipewire:

• if it is installed, execute pipewire
• if it is not installed, execute make run in the pipewire source tree

3. Without stopping pipewire, run wireplumber:

• if it is installed, execute wireplumber
• if it is not installed, execute make run in the wireplumber source tree

Subpages:

Configuration

Debug Logging