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The surf web browser of suckless.org is not playing any audio. It was installed from the repositories on Xubuntu LTS 20.04.1. The default pulseaudio sound server works fine with other applications such as vlc.

When running surf from the command line, for example:

$ surf -m -a @ http://heppen.be:8091/m.html

I receive the following warnings:

(surf:25703): dbind-WARNING **: 15:44:29.674: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-NDwOQIOpuu: Permission denied

(WebKitWebProcess:25718): dbind-WARNING **: 15:44:29.833: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-NDwOQIOpuu: Permission denied

What is going wrong that pulseaudio is not receiving any audio from surf?

Another consideration is that surf depends on libwebkit2gtk. I am not sure if there is something similar to chrome://settings/content/sound as in Blink engine browsers?

Serge Stroobandt
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  • My guess is that surf doesn't support websocket protocol. Try youtube, works for me. – mkkot Oct 25 '20 at 15:44
  • @mkkot **What I forgot to mention:** Previously, this worked fine on Xubuntu LTS 18.04. However, `surf` was probably using Webkit v1 at the time. Youtube raises even more serious errors over here. – Serge Stroobandt Oct 25 '20 at 16:14

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