Ask RTKit directly for the speaker tuning's realtime priority (#12958)

The tuning host loaded module-rt with default arguments, so it asked for
realtime through xdg-desktop-portal. A portal started before rtkit was
installed reports a realtime budget of zero. module-rt applies that as a
hard RLIMIT_RTTIME of 0, RTKit still makes the data thread SCHED_RR, and
the kernel kills the host with SIGKILL as soon as audio plays; systemd
restarts it every two seconds and the speakers stay silent until the next
login.

Set rtportal.enabled = false, as the stock pipewire.conf does. The host is
a user service in the same session as the PipeWire daemon and has no
reason to go through the portal.

The host config is only copied by `omarchy-audio-tuning on`, so a
migration replaces an installed copy that is still Omarchy's own with the
old setting, and restarts the host if it runs. It does not call `on`,
which would overwrite a tuning graph another tool wrote under the same
name.

Co-authored-by: Michael de By <contact@michaeldeby.nl>
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MichaelandMichael de By authored and GitHub committed 2026-10-04 10:20:11 -04:00
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@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@ context.spa-libs = {
}
context.modules = [
# Boost the audio thread priority.
# Boost the audio thread priority. Ask RTKit directly, as pipewire.conf
# does: a portal started before rtkit existed reports a realtime budget of
# zero, which becomes a hard RLIMIT_RTTIME of 0 while RTKit still makes the
# data thread realtime, and the kernel then kills the host once audio plays.
{ name = libpipewire-module-rt
args = { }
args = { rtportal.enabled = false }
flags = [ ifexists nofail ]
}
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echo "Ask RTKit directly for the speaker tuning's realtime priority"
# The tuning host asked for realtime through xdg-desktop-portal. A portal started
# before rtkit was installed reports a realtime budget of zero; module-rt applies
# it as a hard RLIMIT_RTTIME of 0, RTKit still makes the data thread realtime, and
# the kernel kills the host as soon as audio plays. The host config is only copied
# by `omarchy-audio-tuning on`, so an installed tuning keeps the old one until
# replaced here.
#
# Only Omarchy's own copy with the old setting is replaced. A community
# calibrator can host its graph under the same file name, and a tuning graph is
# never touched: `omarchy-audio-tuning on` would overwrite one it did not write.
host_config="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/pipewire/omarchy-speaker-tuning.conf"
host_source="$OMARCHY_PATH/default/audio/filter-chain-host.conf"
if [[ -f $host_config && ! -L $host_config ]] &&
grep -qx '# Host config for the Omarchy speaker tuning.' "$host_config" &&
grep -q 'args = { }' "$host_config"; then
install -Dm644 "$host_source" "$host_config"
# A restart ends playback for a moment, so only a running host is restarted.
systemctl --user try-restart omarchy-speaker-tuning.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$tmp_dir"' EXIT
mkdir -p "$tmp_dir/bin"
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$tmp_dir/config" OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" CALL_LOG="$tmp_dir/calls"
export PATH="$tmp_dir/bin:$PATH"
cat > "$tmp_dir/bin/systemctl" <<'SH'
#!/bin/bash
printf '%s\n' "$*" >> "$CALL_LOG"
SH
chmod +x "$tmp_dir/bin/systemctl"
migration="$ROOT/migrations/1790114905.sh"
host_source="$ROOT/default/audio/filter-chain-host.conf"
host_config="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire/omarchy-speaker-tuning.conf"
mkdir -p "${host_config%/*}"
grep -q 'args = { rtportal.enabled = false }' "$host_source" ||
fail "the shipped tuning host asks RTKit directly"
pass "the shipped tuning host asks RTKit directly"
# The copy an earlier Omarchy installed: the same file with the old setting.
sed 's/args = { rtportal.enabled = false }/args = { }/' "$host_source" > "$host_config"
: > "$CALL_LOG"
bash -euo pipefail "$migration" >/dev/null
cmp -s "$host_source" "$host_config" || fail "an installed Omarchy host is replaced"
grep -Fxq -- "--user try-restart omarchy-speaker-tuning.service" "$CALL_LOG" ||
fail "a replaced host is restarted if it runs"
pass "an installed Omarchy host is replaced and restarted"
: > "$CALL_LOG"
bash -euo pipefail "$migration" >/dev/null
[[ ! -s $CALL_LOG ]] || fail "the migration is idempotent"
pass "the migration is idempotent"
# Another tool's host under the same name, as a community calibrator writes it.
foreign='context.properties = { log.level = 0 }
context.modules = [
{ name = libpipewire-module-rt args = { } flags = [ ifexists nofail ] }
]'
printf '%s\n' "$foreign" > "$host_config"
: > "$CALL_LOG"
bash -euo pipefail "$migration" >/dev/null
[[ $(cat "$host_config") == "$foreign" && ! -s $CALL_LOG ]] ||
fail "a host another tool wrote is left alone"
pass "a host another tool wrote is left alone"
rm -f "$host_config"
bash -euo pipefail "$migration" >/dev/null
[[ ! -e $host_config && ! -s $CALL_LOG ]] || fail "no tuning installed means nothing to do"
pass "no tuning installed means nothing to do"