SUMMARY Volume widget displays and adjusts volume of inactive built-in audio output rather than the active bluetooth output. But only when the widget pop-up is not open, and audio is not currently playing. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. power on, log in 2. pair bluetooth audio device if unpaired, connect device if previously paired 4. Open Audio volume widget pop up and ensure bluetooth device is selected* 5. Close Audio Volume widget pop-up 6. Ensure no audio is being played ** *bluetooth device is auto selected to be active when first connected, but this also happens if I manually switch to built in audio and back. Or even if I disable and re-enable both or either audio devices. **it takes a couple seconds to kick in EXPECTED RESULT Audio volume widget would display and control the volume of the active audio output, which is the bluetooth device OBSERVED RESULT Taskbar audio widget displays volume state of the inactive built-in audio output instead Scrolling over widget adjusts volume of the inactive audio output Volume control keyboard buttons also adjust volume of inactive audio output The widget temporarily switches to displaying and controlling the active audio output device only when pop up menu is open, or audio starts to play from an application. The widget reverts back to controlling/displaying inactive device as soon as both no audio is being played and the pop up menu is closed (For clarity: audio does not get played on the inactive device, it's just the widget's volume display and volume adjustment that is for the wrong device) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Distro: Bazzite 43 -Fresh install -Up to date as of time of posting Hardware- Framework Laptop 12 Workaround: Manually disabling built in audio when using a bluetooth audio device
I'm not able to reproduce this on Plasma built from git-master or 6.5.1. Can you re-test when your system updates to Plasma 6.5.1 or later?
(In reply to TraceyC from comment #1) > I'm not able to reproduce this on Plasma built from git-master or 6.5.1. Can > you re-test when your system updates to Plasma 6.5.1 or later? Hi, thanks for checking this out! I just tested with plasma 6.5.1 and the behavior is the same. Though, to be clear, I have not installed the distro totally fresh, plasma has been updated in place as part of the Bazzite's default update schedule using rpm-ostree. So it's possible the issue might be resolved for fresh installs. Or as always, it may just have been introduced downstream by Fedora, or Bazzite. I did some more specific tests. The behavior persists regardless of whether the built in audio is driving the speakers, or the audio port. I tested a different Bluetooth audio device, and the issue persists. I tested the different audio profiles available for the bluetooth devices in the volume widget. That has no effect on the behavior. And interestingly: I noticed their is an option in the 3-dot menu of each audio device called "play all audio via this device". When selected, that option doesn't visually change anything (no check mark next to it, no pop up showing different settings, no mark on the device display in the widget indicating the option is enabled/disabled for any of the devices, etc). And there are no differences in behavior that I can find either. Audio continues to play through the device selected with the checkboxes on the left of the list, and the issue described above persists. Not sure if that option is also bugged, or if I'm just misunderstanding the way that option works. Full info from About This System/Info Center: Operating System: Bazzite 43 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.10.0 Kernel Version: 6.17.7-ba01.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i3-1315U Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.3 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics Manufacturer: Framework Product Name: Laptop 12 (13th Gen Intel Core) System Version: A3
I can't reproduce this either with current git master and an Arch-based distro.