nevermind, it spontaneously started to work without changing anything... Am 19.03.19 um 01:40 schrieb Markus: > Hi Pulseaudio-list > > I would like to simultaniously use the same audio device from two > simultaniously logged in users on the same machine by using the system > wide setup. I know about the security shortcomings. > > After configuring, the process list shows that the pulseaudio process > only runs system wide as "pulse" user now. And the users don't spawn > their own process. So it looks fine and the audio works. The volume > status is shared too :-) > > But as soon as I switch to another x11 console with a different user, > then the audio from the other console stops working, even despite using > this system wide setup. > > Question: Is there anything more I can do? For example from a > ConsoleKit/systemd/hal/udev perspecitve? > > I need the x11 sessions so not prevent the other sessions to play audio. > because I assume, the pulseaudio server should be ready to use for all > of the users... > > The users are in the pulse-access group as needed. As a test, I also > tried to put the users into the audio group, although I thought it > should not be necessary. Didn't work. > > Linux intel 4.18.0-16-generic > Ubuntu 18.10 > pulseaudio 12.2 > > Pulseaudio is started by: > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --system --disallow-exit > --disallow-module-loading --realtime --log-target=journal > > I would be glad for any tips. I tried for hours and hours... > I slowly starting considering buying a second computer for background > playback stuff and mix the streams by hardware... > > Regards, > Markus > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss