Waybar: Unknown module: pulseaudio

[AlexChalk]

Hi, I'm confused by this error message as I thought pulseaudio was a built-in module:

[warning] module pulseaudio: Unknown module: pulseaudio

waybar --version: Waybar v0.8.0
OS: Nixos 19.09

How can I debug this?

[tobiasjakobi]

What do you understand by built-in? Waybar is always one single binary. A Waybar module is not like a kernel module.

Concerning your problem, you distribution probably hasn't build Waybar with pulseaudio support.

[AlexChalk]

What do you understand by built-in?

I meant included in the waybar binary, so I wasn't clear on how it could be missing.

distribution probably hasn't build Waybar with pulseaudio support.

Thanks, this was helpful and correct. For future readers I set this in my configuration.nix to force building with pulseaudio support:

  nixpkgs.config.pulseaudio = true;

[Kaligule]

@adc17 Thank you for this issue. I am currently facing the same problem, but your proposed solution doesn't seem to work. Do you think it might be possible for you to share your nixos config so I could debug mine against it? Thanks a lot in advance.

[AlexChalk]

Hi @Kaligule, here is my primary nixos config. My sway and waybar configs might also be useful. Hope it helps!