On Tue, 16.09.08 23:57, Colin Walters (walters@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> > 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. > > Which is broken because in reality per-session and per-user are the > same thing. You can't log in multiple times: > http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/16885.html As far as I know we again allow multiple simultaneous X logins by the same user. Also, PA supports console logins now, where multiple logins are the common case. I'd love to have a per-homedir/per-machine bus in D-Bus. This would allow me to start PA up via normal activation. Unfortunately we don't have such a bus and adding it to D-Bus is admittedly questionnable since only in the fewest cases using such a bus is valid. Those cases are the ones where machine-specific resources are managed by a user dbus service. Besides PA only the new V4L daemon (possibly) comes to my mind that fall into this category. Adding such a bus for just two users probably doesn't make too much sense. Especially since according to Scott Upstart will eventually support starting per-user "singleton" daemons easily. 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
