On Fri, 2019-03-08 at 19:03 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 11:48 +0100, NicoHood wrote: > > On 3/5/19 5:12 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > > * There can now be only one pavucontrol window open at a time. > > > Trying to start pavucontrol for a second time brings the > > > first window to foreground. > > > > Hi, > > This "fix" is really a problem for me: > > > > I have 6 audio sinks with pulseaudio installed in my appartment. I am > > really happy that I can control each of them via pavucontrol using the > > PULSE_SERVER environment variable option. > > > > When I need to debug something I usually have more windows of > > pavucontrol open, for multiple devices. Now this does not work anymore > > which is super annoying. > > > > My suggestion is to check for the PULSE_SERVER and only have unique > > windows for each host. So If you want to run pulseaudio for localhost > > multiple times only one instance is open, but you can still open > > pavucontrol for other remote destinations (also only one for each host). > > > > If that suggestion is too complicated to implement I would kindly > > request to revert the recent fix. :S > > We give GLib the application ID (org.pulseaudio.pavucontrol), and GLib > then implements all the activation magic using that ID. We could append > the server string to the application ID. I quickly tried setting a > bogus ID, and that didn't seem to break anything (I noticed that > running the pavucontrol command for a second time doesn't bring the > window to foreground on my machine, though, but that doesn't seem to be > related to the unusual application ID, because reverting back to the > normal ID doesn't work any better). > > So, I think I'll make a patch that appends the server string to the > application ID, even though messing with the application ID feels quite > "wrong". I submitted a merge request now: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/merge_requests/11 -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk https://liberapay.com/tanuk _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
