Hi Ilan, I'm not the pipewire maintainer, but I noticed this bug was open and happen to use XFCE and both my volume control and keyboard volume keys are working. I don't know why pulseaudio was removed from your system, but if things are not in a working state for you, it's safe to put it back. Here's the current state of my installed packages:
ii gstreamer1.0-pipewire:amd64 0.3.38-2 amd64 GStreamer 1.0 plugin for the PipeWire multimedia server ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.18.5-1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package) ii libcanberra-pulse:amd64 0.30-8 amd64 PulseAudio backend for libcanberra ii libkf5pulseaudioqt3:amd64 1.3-2 amd64 Pulseaudio bindings library for Qt ii libpipewire-0.3-0:amd64 0.3.38-2 amd64 libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server ii libpipewire-0.3-common 0.3.38-2 all libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - common files ii libpipewire-0.3-dev:amd64 0.3.38-2 amd64 libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - development ii libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 0.3.38-2 amd64 libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - modules ii libpulse-dev:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio client development headers and libraries ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support) ii libpulse0:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries ii libpulsedsp:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library ii osspd-pulseaudio 1.3.2-13 amd64 OSS Proxy Daemon: PulseAudio backend ii pipewire:amd64 0.3.38-2 amd64 audio and video processing engine multimedia server ii pipewire-bin 0.3.38-2 amd64 PipeWire multimedia server - programs ii pipewire-doc 0.3.38-2 all libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - documentation ii pipewire-media-session 0.3.38-2 amd64 PipeWire multimedia session manager un pipewire-pulse <none> <none> (no description available) ii pulseaudio 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-utils 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server ii xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:amd64 0.4.3-1 amd64 Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio As you can see, they coexist and I have not attempted to install things like pipewire-pulse (which would begin trying to replace pipewire's server with pulseaudio's) nor pipewire-audio-client-libraries which would try to intercept attempts to use those audio systems' libraries. I'm interested in moving to pipewire to replace pulse when it's deemed "not experimental", but I'm not quite ready to break my audio setup just yet. 😁 Hope that helps. Joseph
