Hi! I have two users on my laptop. When I start to playback sound from the session of the first user and then switch to the second user pulseaudio stops to play back sound from the first user. This way I also do not hear appointment reminders from the session thats currently not active unless I switch again. Before using Pulseaudio sound from both sessions has been played simultaneously with Phonon + Xine. Now I am using Phonon + GStreamer, but I bet stopping the audio comes from Pulseaudio. I read about system-wide mode. But first I shouldn't use it and second it doesn't solve this issue anyway, cause sound is still stopped. Maybe I missed setting autospawn on clients to off - cause I saw three pulseaudio daemons, one system-wide and two from the users -, but I do not like messing around with my Pulseaudio setup anymore - especially when its not recommended. Reason for trying Pulseaudio for me mostly was cause thats whats coming with Debian KDE standard install out of the box in the meanwhile. So whats the official way to achieve what I had before out of the box? The default per-session handling of audio makes sense for unix users being used by different human users on a shared computer but it does not make too much sense for my use case. Best way would be to tell pulseaudio explicetely when some Unix users may play simultaneously. Ideally it should still not allow recording audio streams from each other user. But for now I would be fine with a global option. I found nothing on the wiki on that. And nothing really obvious via search engine either. I only found out that I am not the only user puzzled by this new different behavior to what I was used to before. Thanks, -- Martin Steigerwald - teamix GmbH - http://www.teamix.de gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90
