Speaking in a voice channel/voice call in the Linux desktop app causes the volume of my mic to lower by itself

Isn't this exactly how auto-gain works? I always turn that off in Vesktop, Discord, and even in Fluxer because auto-gain is trash. At least on Linux.

This feature bothers me so much. I've never found a way to disable it; for me, gain control options do nothing. I've had to write a cron job to set all microphone levels back to 80% every 30 seconds so it doesn't creep down to inaudible levels.

This feature bothers me so much. I've never found a way to disable it; for me, gain control options do nothing. I've had to write a cron job to set all microphone levels back to 80% every 30 seconds so it doesn't creep down to inaudible levels.

Assuming it's not been deprecated, Electron should have a launch flag like --disable-features=WebRtcAllowInputVolumeAdjustment to disable it that you could try

I have auto gain disabled in Fluxer settings, works fine for me. Both on web and desktop. Using CachyOS.

Isn't this exactly how auto-gain works? I always turn that off in Vesktop, Discord, and even in Fluxer because auto-gain is trash. At least on Linux.

Most other voice applications I've used handle autogain internally, like as an effect applied on a copy of the audio source. In my personal opinion, the application should not have an effect on a system-level configuration. If it's a setting available inside of Fluxer, I would expect it to only affect Fluxer.

Most other voice applications I've used handle autogain internally, like as an effect applied on a copy of the audio source.

If these other applications that you're thinking of are not using WebRTC, then that would be why. As I mentioned, this is a known behavior for WebRTC applications like Discord and Fluxer when using automatic gain control. It automatically lowers the microphone volume at the system-level on both Windows and Linux. I don't have a Mac, but I'd assume it acts the same unless Mac doesn't allow access to its system audio API in this way. https://wiki.robotz.com/index.php?title=WebRTC_Automatic_Gain_Control Edit: formatting

Another solution for this since a lot of chromium/electron apps like to do this is to set the permissions to read only on the pipewire side.

Steps:

1. navigate to ~/.config/wireplumber
2. if not present create a directory named wireplumber.conf.d
3. create a new file in the wireplumber.conf.d directory no-fluxer-auto-gain.conf and paste the following:

   access.rules = [
       {
           matches = [
               { application.process.binary = "fluxer" }, # add more lines for every app you want to have read only permissions
           ]
           actions = {
               update-props = {
                   default_permissions = "rx"
               }
           }
       }
   ]

4. Log out and log back into to your DE or restart your PC.