Bug 469658

Summary:	Mouseover on a task in taskmanager pauses pulseaudio/pipewire network stream
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	adrian
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description adrian 2023-05-12 09:27:29 UTC

SUMMARY

When playing audio from a plasma session with pulse/pipewire from any source, network audio playback will stop when the mouse hovers over a task entry in the Task Manager (causing a thumbnail of the window to appear). This only happens for network sinks.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set up audio over a pulseaudio network sink and play some audio.
2. Hover over a task manager entry.

OBSERVED RESULT
Sound stops and doesn't resume playing until mouse is moved away.

EXPECTED RESULT
Sound keeps playing.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Gentoo 6.2.12-gentoo #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 on wayland
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-05-15 18:43:29 UTC

Well that's extremely odd!

Comment 2 adrian 2023-05-16 17:41:53 UTC

I concur, it's very bizarre behaviour, but quite distracting when you work with some music. Maybe to add to the oddness: The only tab where this doesn't happen is the music player (audacious in this case). There are no warnings/errors in dmesg or syslog either, so I'm a bit at a loss at what to report exactly. Please let me know if you can think of something specific.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-01-09 21:44:15 UTC

Are you still able to reproduce this issue in Plasma 6.2.5 or later?

Comment 4 adrian 2025-01-13 08:17:51 UTC

Thanks for checking in. I don't seem to be able to reproduce this on a current 6.2.5 + pipewire 1.2.7.