Matthias Clasen writes: > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 18:05 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Chuck Anderson writes: > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > 5.) While I paplay, I try to go Ctrl-Alt-F1. While I'm not prevented > > > > from doing so, paplay believes it should pause playing while I'm away > > > > from the gui tty. Now, who's the genius that figured out this "feature?" > > > > > > That's ConsoleKit deactivating the streams on the non-active console. > > > This is so mult-user-switching can work and each user can have their > > > own audio. > > > > > OK. Thanks for the explanation. > > > > So, the concept limits audio to a single console, even if the same user > > is logged in somewhere else? I guess running pa as a systen daemon would > > not exhibit this behavior? > > > > Actually, Lennart changed PA to not be strictly per-session, but > per-user, I think. But I don't know the details of how that works. > I also thought it was per user, but I got the same pause behavior even after I logged in on Ctrl+Alt+F1, as I recall. > I've looked into your 'login screen ready' sound problem, and found that > it doesn't work atm due to a pulseaudio bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462537 Thanks for filing this one. PS: IMHO, it would be worth the extra effort to clear this and the associated issues as discussed upstream: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2008-September/msg00015.html in time for the next spin of RHEL. The Linux desktop, with orca, gok, and dasher as builtin AT, plus the solid support for a11y in Firefox 3 and Open Office 3 should finally make Linux a serious contender for U.S. Government desktop sales under Sec. 508--something that hasn't been there before. Janina > > > Matthias > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@xxxxxxxx Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@xxxxxxxx Linux Foundation http://a11y.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
