>> IIUC running a system-wide pulseaudio is the wrong thing to do. >> So I should run a PA daemon for each user. > You should not. You may run 1 PulseAudio deamon, all users connect to > it. Here is my configuration: I know a system wide instance can be used, but: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide What makes you think the problems described won't affect my case of "several users on different VTs"? Stefan