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Fix for pulseaudio causing app crash

August 23, 2026 — BarryK

Described this earlier today:

https://bkhome.org/news/202608/pulseaudio-mixer-causes-apps-to-crash.html

I'm concerned that apps other than geany might also crash, and apps other than pavucontrol might cause the crashes.

So, have restored this in /etc/profile:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

As was described in a github link in the previous blog post, enabling that variable causes issues with Asian languages in chromium. So, instead have disabled it in chromium.

/usr/bin/chromium is a script, that will run chromium as user "chromium". I have inserted this into the script:

unset XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS

The script is generated by /usr/local/clients/setup-client, by woofQ2 when EasyOS is built.

Interesting, I wonder if some other mysterious crashes that some users have reported, will now be fixed.   

Tags: easy