2011/11/7 Martin Steigerwald <ms at teamix.de>: > 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. Correct. This is by design. > 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. I would load module-protocol-native-tcp with ip-acl=127.0.0.1. Then for other users set PULSE_SERVER=localhost. > 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. This recording thing is, among other things, one of the reasons multiple users aren't allowed to connect to eachothers pulse daemon by default. > 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, Maarten
