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
Well that's extremely odd!
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.
Are you still able to reproduce this issue in Plasma 6.2.5 or later?
Thanks for checking in. I don't seem to be able to reproduce this on a current 6.2.5 + pipewire 1.2.7.