So when I am doing stuff, there is an icon in the xfce panel. It’s an icon showing a microphone and speaker.
Sometimes I am doing stuff and the microphone icon changes and turns on. There’s a visual indication of this. And I haven’t typed anything or touched anything near that mic/speaker icon. There shouldn’t be a reason for the mic turning back on.
Then I will click on the microphone speaker combo and turn off the microphone, then it turns back on later. There’s a little slider thing.
I don’t know if this is an electrical problem in my system, or if this is a code problem, or if maybe someone has access to my system with a firmware backdoor. I’m really not sure. I just installed 4.3 in the past day, so it’s unlikely this is downloaded malware, since the only thing I’ve done was follow one guide to install a vpn. it wouldn’t surprise me if this is actually firmware level malware that wants to hear what i’m typing, although it could be a coding problem or just electrical damage in my system.
This has happened when I am using template manager, when I’ve been uninstalling and reinstalling templates, and when I typed sudo thunar in dom0 terminal. I don’t know why this is happening.
It just turned on again while I was typing this. I also checked the weekly iso with the public weekly key (although it was in the same directory). This was some Qubes repo in france for weekly builds or something?
Exactly! It’s the switches on the audio mixer. They’ll switch back to “enabled.” Here, it’s just the updater. Neither the Template Manager/Switcher nor the Qubes Manager do anything concerning the aforementioned behavior.
I don’t remember if it’s connected to updating a certain template. I’ll observe it next time. I expected it to be normal. It had been that way for quite a long time.
I get a different Settings Menu… will investigate why.
Later EDIT: no idea why. Maybe some later fixes were backported to Fedora? Versions immediately after 0.4.4 seem to try various fixes for a “flickering mic icon” introduced in 0.4.4.
I do not think so. Feel free to open a new issue and reference this forum topic.
If it happened only during update, I would have guessed it to be because of pipewire service restart. This could be reproduced by restarting the service manually. But in your case, you experience it in other places (in thunar). So I am clueless. You may look at journalctl logs and see if the pipewire service is restarted at the time you experience this bug.
Today I had such a “moment”: Doing qubes backups before switching to fedora-42-templates. Before selecting the qubes to include into backup, right after selecting backup path, passwords etc. and hitting “next” mic and speakers came back on.