UI Crashes, Audio keeps failing.
So randomly Bazzite will have a UI crash, any browser will stay open, but the desktop will be black and the UI bar vanishes.
It's a no warning type of thing, but only happens if I am doing something with sound. Open browser, open Discord, no issues. Go to Youtube to watch One Topic or the click and UI fails.
Also Audio fails it's like its trying to switch devices, I had a USB Pebble and USB head phones attached, I unplugged one to see if it helped. It didn't.
This is most noticable when playing a video game ie Dune Awakening or FFXIV. With both my Headphones and Pebbles hooked up the sound will swap for a few seconds to the other device. With only one device the sound will just cut out for a few seconds. Adding system info ...
This is most noticable when playing a video game ie Dune Awakening or FFXIV. With both my Headphones and Pebbles hooked up the sound will swap for a few seconds to the other device. With only one device the sound will just cut out for a few seconds. Adding system info ...
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ok for added details, I forced the crash. Simple enough opened Viv play Youtube, UI crashed. Took Screen.
UI is still crashed, but Discord still works.
you need sudo to use dmidecode
the program that shows the UI is plasmashell
Ok, can you explain like I have never used Linux before, and have been using Windows since 3.0 and got so sick of them I switched last week.
the dmiedecode command just put before that
as in
sudo whateverTyped Plasmashell... it recrashed the UI, but got a long string of text. Did the sudo demicode... but I think I did that wrong'
it's correct
also the errors from plasmashell seem very strange
did the UI start at all
after running plasmashell
plasmashell is like explorer
flashed on and off a couple of times and went back to black screen with open windows.
except it sets the wallpaper
I'm glad I opened the terminal before forcing the crashg this time.
& it dying means no walpaper
you can still open a terminal or really anything even without it
the window manager is still running
which can open stuff
I have Terminal, discord, Chrome, and Vivaldi open.
I had those open before forcing the crash. Because I need to fix this.
if you press win+w it'll give you an overwiew of Windows & a box to search for stuff in
the box can open anything
hmm i do have an idea
oh, cool yes that works
we reset plasma settings
tell me how 🙂
there;s a hidden
.config folder you can nuke that
rm -rf ~/.config
oh
now that i think of it we can just back it up
mv ~/.config ~/.config.bak
after that plasmashell should startok. reset. Time to test sound if crashing
ok no crash. Seems to have worked
technically ~/.config most apps can use ~/.config
it's basically %appdata%
in Windows terms
though
on bazzite most normal apps are fllatpaks
flatpaks store their data in a different place
cool. I have a big learning curve ahead, but thankfully no AI to mess things up. 😛
Really I should be better at Linux, as I use to run a UNIX server back in the early 90s.
~/.config is very much the %appdata of Linux
as in literally contains the same app files for supported apps are there
for example
brave browserAlso plugged the pebble back in, no issues. Hopefully tonight when playing videogaymes the audio issue wont happen.
has
%appdata%\BraveSoftware
inux that's normally in ~/.config/BraveSoftware
bazzite uses flatpaks where by default the location is slightly different
~/.var/app/com.BraveSoftware.Brave/config
i thinkpersonally I have always changed my default locations, in the past it was to make use of raid drives for scurre data managemnt now it's just habbit.
I am trying to resist tinkering too much in linux. But I'm so very tempted.
Also it seems you like Brave ...
oh app files can be moved pretty with flatpak app data though is slightly more annoying
it is the browser i use so i use it as an example
I sadly use 3 browsers, and have been known to use a bunch in the past. As each browser does one thing better than others, so I use them based on their strength ie Chrome for dealing with google and text to speech, Vivaldi for Blocking ads Youtube, firefox for reddit.
etc
here's what the folder looks like
same thing as on Windows
discord is also in
~/.config
i don't remember if it's in %appdata% on Windows though
might be %localappdata% or %appdatalocal% i don't remember exactly what the name is
since Discord is stored in one of these installing it doesn't require admin access
in fact it doesn't even ask
chromium & other chromium based browser installers do ask
if you just refuse UAC
it'll fall back to using %appdata%
think of flatpaks sorta like Windows store apps
they're contained to their own environment & have pernissions like Windows store apps