I have 2 user accounts on my PC and I use them at the same time (I switch between them a lot). After update to plasma 5.7.0 kmix sometimes doesn't start automatically and I have to start it manually.
plasma-pa should be the default mixer in Plasma 5. If you have it installed, you can remove kmix. If there are features in kmix that are missing in plasma-pa, please report these.
I don't have PulseAudio so I can't use plasma-pa. Even if I had PulseAudio and I could use this applet it doesn't change that kmix has a problem to start every time like it should.
That does not change the fact that kmix is long unmaintained, so your better option is to try plasma-pa. All distributions offer PulseAudio.
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