Arctis Sound Manager has been released in version 1.4.12.
The tool manages audio settings for SteelSeries Arctis headsets on Linux, including microphone EQ, filter chains and the screen display on the GameDAC. After the hotfix in version 1.4.11, this one is a pure diagnostics and visibility update.
Nothing changes in the audio handling. The fixes target visible problems: the first launch no longer looks like a freeze (startup dialogs now open one at a time and request the foreground), “Copy cmd” works under Wayland, udev rules are checked on the host rather than inside container installs (e.g. Distrobox, Bazzite), and the Arctis Nova Pro Omni is named correctly in the USB-2 and XBOX switch positions instead of being reported as unsupported hardware.
Fixed
- The first launch no longer looks like a freeze. Every startup dialog is created without a parent, because the main window may not exist yet when the first one is due, and an unparented dialog is exactly what focus-stealing prevention pushes to the back. They now open one at a time, in the order they come due, and each asks for the foreground.
- “Copy cmd” copies. Under Wayland the clipboard belongs to the focused window, and a compositor silently drops the request from a window that does not have keyboard focus. It now takes the foreground first, and says “Copied!” on the button.
- On a container install, the udev rules are looked for on the host. A distrobox container has its own /etc, and udev only ever reads the host’s. ASM looked inside the container, found nothing, and reported them missing on an install that was fine. It now says to run those lines from a host terminal instead.
- An Arctis Nova Pro Omni whose mode switch is in the wrong position is named as such. The DAC has a physical USB-1 / USB-2 / XBOX switch and enumerates as a different device on each. The other two positions are now declared as what they are, so the daemon names the device and the switch position, and says there is nothing to report.
- The bug report no longer claims the udev rules are missing when they are not. It now points at the section that answers the question per device.

Source: GitHub