Steeve McCauley wrote: > This problem has been driving me nuts for quite some time. > > I'm using gnome fast-user-switch to enable multiple user logins > in fedora8. The way I've always had my desktop setup is to always > play music from one user, and then we switch around between users > and continue to listen to the music. But it seems that something > in pulse is disabling the users playback when we switch X consoles. > When we swtich back sound is re-enabled. > > Is there any way I disable this behaviour? It's not technically pulse that's doing this but policykit that is removing the ACL from the audio device as you switch users. See my reply to a previous message on this list: https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-April/001719.html HTHs Col