[pulseaudio-discuss] a simple way to disable pa

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Dec 22 12:45:28 PST 2008


On 21 Dec 2008, Colin Guthrie verbalised:
> Per-user mode is usually the way to go and should be the default on 
> Ubunutu (as far as i know). This mode allows proper integration info the 
> console-kit for knowing which user is active (e.g. if you loging > 1 
> user at a time) and thus grants and denies access to the sound hardware 
> as appropriate.

It's also noticeably more efficient, because it doesn't need to stream
the data over a local network socket to get it to the daemon, but can
simply push it into a shared memory region.



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