On Friday 1 August 2025 at 07:29:05 BST, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users <users@trinitydesktop.org> wrote:

Anno domini 22:56:01 Thu, 31 Jul 2025 +0000 (UTC)
alistair izzard via tde-users scripsit:
>  first make a folder in your home folder. something like .tmp.
> You have to add export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR= ~/.tmpPipewire will now work
> Alie (the one that did the trinity ISO's)
>    On Wednesday 4 June 2025 at 01:22:38 BST, Frans via tde-users <users@trinitydesktop.org> wrote: 
> 
>  On laptops i have PClinuxOS with TDE.
> On 1 i did not install Pipewire etc: still sound.
>
> On another i just let all the update come incl. pipewire etc. : no
> sound.
>
> Does arts have a problem?
> Does Devuan have pipewire and can have TDE?

I run Devuan and have alsa only - no pipewire or pulseaudio - on all my systems and I have perfectly working sound. On a RPi I had pulseaudio for alsa over bluetooth - pipewire never worked there.

Nik

I've never tried it on Devuan. I'm the one who does the Trinity respib on PCLinuxOS and had sound as long as you didn't fully update to PW from PA, however some tried and lost sound. So I found the solution, noted below.