On Tue, 16.09.08 20:40, Matthias Clasen (mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > 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. This is corrrect. We spawn at most one PA instance per-machine/per-homedir. All sessions that come and go share it. When the last session of a user terminates and some timeout elapsed PA will terminate itself again. > 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 I belive this is more of a gdm bug, though. ;-) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
