On Monday 15 February 2010 21:22:26 Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and poort at 15/02/10 19:32 did gyre and gimble: > > It's about public multiseat computer.That's one computer(ubuntu) with > > several users. > > Each screen or display or seat has an usb soundcard.Every user always > > logs in on the same seat/display.No problem there. > > So let's say that a person logs in on screen1(seat1) ,mutes the sound. > > A next person logs in at same screen1(seat1) with same > > username/passwd(these are public computers), but founds no sound(sound is > > muted by last person before him), so usualy than i get a phone call about > > the no sound and have to tell to the person to unmute the sound. > > So I have to make sure that the sound volume gets unmuted again at login. > > So I am thinking to write a script with: > > set-sink-volume 0 55000 > > to be called with gdm postlogin default. > > But as there are for example six soundcards, I cannot determine the > > default sink for the users (so i could set the script per user), > > Hmm I'm a bit confused here. Each seat should only see one USB audio > card each. Perhaps you should look to console-kit here to make sure the > ACLs are written on the USB devices appropriately. If this is setup > right each seat would only see one card. > > I'm beginning to think that you are running PA in system wide mode > here.... which is really not the right way to do things for such a setup. > > > i have to put all the > > > sinks outputs set-sink-volume at login: > > set-sink-volume 0 55000 > > set-sink-volume 1 55000 > > set-sink-volume 2 55000 > > set-sink-volume 3 55000 > > and so on.. > > This works ok because the default sinks changing sometimes also: > > when one usb-soundcards fails or did not wake up in time, the sinks order > > is changing, so I have to re-assign the correct sinks to the correct > > screen/user.(i have also a script for this however). > > Assuming you run in the default per-user mode: > > Is there any reason not to clear out the user's home directory after > logout? I'd have thought that if the data was kept then one user could > leave things in a pretty nasty state for the next user generally? (i.e. > homepage reset, desktop background changed to an inappropriate image etc.). > > If this was done then the user's choice of muted audio should be reset > (assuming that the aforementioned bug is fixed), and the gdm default > should take over and be applied for the "first" login of the user. > > So with that in mind, I still maintain that fixing the bug will solve > your problem with the GDM user's volume being the reference. > > Col Thanks, good hint, I did clean out the home dir and the hidden .kde, but not the .pulse. Now it's resetting volumes as the .pulse is replaced at login with gdm. poort
