#1006109 xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin: Not connected to the PulseAudio server - recoverable with SIGHUP

Package:
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
Source:
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
Description:
Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio
Submitter:
Francesco
Date:
2022-02-19 08:57:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1006109#5
Date:
2022-02-19 08:53:48 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

on a fresh Debian testing install, my PulseAudio panel plugin does not connect to server at login.
Audio works, since using VLC or going to youtube I can hear everything.
The panel icon has the X and hovering shows "Not connected to the PulseAudio server"
If I send a SIGHUP to the panel, it connects to the server without fail, so I have a workaround
on my system that runs this command after some seconds from login:
pkill --signal HUP "panel-.*-pulseau"
My machine has a very fast PCIe4 SSD, so I suspect the plugin is loading too fast
and the server is not yet up, and I suspect this problem cannot be replicated on some other machines.

Best Regards