On Mon, 08.02.10 21:01, olin.pulse.7ia at shivers.mail0.org (olin.pulse.7ia at shivers.mail0.org) wrote: > > Bill Cox: > > While the "right" way is not system-wide mode, in practice, I find > > system-wide mode to be very stable and usable on Ubuntu systems that > > have multiple users trying to send sound to the speakers. > > So, I'm still wondering: what *is* the "right way" for this use case? Is it > the case that PulseAudio just doesn't address it? On a headless system, or on a system where no local users exist (i.e. thin clients), use the system-wide mode. On multi-user systems, don't. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4