Friday 12 April 2019

Kubuntu 19 with Plasma 5 and pulse-audio-equalizer

2019 April 12th
There were more updates to Kubuntu 19.04 this morning.  About the only problem I have so far is, as mentioned on the last post, that each time there is an update, pulseaudio-gtk is updated and of course, will no longer work.

This is not specific to Kubuntu 19 - it was happening to Jubuntu 18.x updates as well.  But with those I could use the pin command to set the pulseaudio-equlizer to a specific version. But since Kubuntu 19.04 it applies the new version over the pinned / locked / forced version (yep, I have tried pinning, locking and forcing).

The method outlined yesterday of dragging a link to the package onto my panel is working nicely though, and it is almost automatic now, as soon as I have applied updates, to see if clicking the PulseAudio-Equalizer icon loads the equalizer.  If it comes up with the GTK error, I simply click the package icon, enter a password and wait a few seconds.  Then I click the Equalizer icon and so far, it loads the Equalizer every time.

The only other problem I've had so far with Kubuntu 19.04 is that it sometimes forgets the screen dimensions or layout or refresh rate.  But these types of glitches are to be expected and I have not reported them yet as they often only happen once or twice.

All in all, a nice smooth transition to the latest Kubuntu, and a smooth transition away from Linux Mint - albeit, sadly after so many years.

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