Hello, I have a couple of computers which are "headless" nodes. I run the pulseaudio sound server on them for network audio, however, no user ever logs in. Because of this, I am forced to run the pulseaudio server in system mode. I know of all the reasons which I shouldn't be using system mode. Is there some other means I can run these "headless" machines to use pulseaudio without system mode? How can I fake the the system out such that they think a user is logged in? I haven't yet figured out how pulseaudio auto starts on a system which a user logged into gnome. I realize it has something to do with esdcompat, however, I don't understand the hook into gnome itself. Both of these headless nodes run a streamlined version of Fedora 10. They don't run all the typcical services which a login node would run. For example, they don't run "dbus", but they could. I'm not sure which services matter to pulse. Any ideas? Thanks, Jim
