On 12/29/2010 11:29 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Peter Hercek at 28/12/10 22:08 did gyre and gimble: >> On 12/28/2010 10:36 PM, Peter Hercek wrote: >>>> If so, then things are all working as expected (albeit with the >>>> module-loopback not preventing an idle timeout of the daemon which >>>> should likely be addressed somehow - likely a relatively simple patch to >>>> module-loopback.c). >>> I'm cool with any way which allows me to prevent the server exit when >>> it is used by module-loopback only. It may be done by module-loopback >>> actually telling the server it is being used or it can be done by some >>> switch/option/argument to module-loopback (looks like it is possible >>> to have them so I do not know how to specify it now) or a switch to >>> server or loading some module do-not-exit-on-idle or whatever :-) I do >>> not really care, it just sucks big time when I need to have some other >>> (visible) app using pulseaudio server to keep it running when I need >>> only module-loopback active. >> Actually the solution for me should be setting >> exit-idle-time = -1 >> This seems to work. >> >> I still think that module-loopback use should prevent the server from >> exit even when exit-idle-time is a small postive number. > Hmm, I should have read this mail before replying to the last :D > > But basically, yes, I agree. I'll look into making that change. Here what I think it should work like: * if module-loopback is loaded and there is at least one stream using it (it is not muted) then it should prevent server shutdown * if all streams which can use module-loopback are muted then it should not prevetnt server shutdown (normal idle counter can run) I think this would work as expected since for the module-loopback loaded case we have these alternatives: 1) server is not running (i.e. loopback streams are muted) * to unmute a stream of module-loopback one must run pavucontrol which starts the server ... and then e.g. line-in loopback would continue to work as expected (server would not exit and drop the sound even when pavucontrol is closed) 2) server is running (i.e. a loopback stream is not muted) * if user mutes then sound is off and there is no problem with server shutting down * if user does not mute it then he/she expects the sound to continue and the server will continue to run Peter.
