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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# PipeWire launcher script for XDG compliant desktops on OpenRC.
+#
+# systemd users are very _STRONGLY_ advised to use the much
+# more reliable and predictable user units instead.
+
+# WARNING: This script assumes being run inside XDG compliant session,
+# which means D-Bus session instance is expected to be correctly set up
+# prior to this script starting. If that is not true, things may break!
+
+# Best to reap any existing daemons and only then try to start a new set.
+pkill -u "${USER}" -x pipewire\|wireplumber 1>/dev/null 2>&1
+
+# The core daemon which by itself does probably nothing.
+/usr/bin/pipewire &
+
+# The so called pipewire-pulse daemon used for PulseAudio compatibility.
+# Commenting this out will stop the PA proxying daemon from starting,
+# however ALSA (with pipewire-alsa), JACK (with jack-sdk) and PW API using
+# clients will still have access to audio and may end up clashing with
+# non-PW apps over HW control (most notably, /usr/bin/pulseaudio daemon).
+/usr/bin/pipewire -c pipewire-pulse.conf &
+
+# Hack for bug #822498 (Gentoo's Bugzilla)
+sleep 1
+
+# Finally a session manager is required for PipeWire to do anything.
+for session_manager in wireplumber pipewire-media-session; do
+ command -v "$session_manager" &>/dev/null && break
+done
+exec "$session_manager"