[pulseaudio-discuss] Automatic selection of an audio sink depending on value of ENV variable

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Jeremy Visser at 19/10/09 11:20 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 16:38 +0800, Leszek Koltunski wrote:
>> Every time I work on the TV, the sound should be sent to hw:1.0, so I
>> have to fire up the new 'gnome-sound-properties 2.28' (BTW, wonderful
>> app! simple and effective) and select hw:1.0 to be the audio sink for
>> now. Worse, since the TV is on 2nd X screen, 'gnome-sound-properties'
>> applet won't start there ( it claims there is already one running -
>> sure there is, on the monitor - and refuses to start ).
> 
> Now I don't necessarily agree with their stance, but it is generally not
> regarded a good idea to have the same user logged in to the same GNOME
> profile twice.
> 
> I know — I get bitten by this too when I want to set up a multiseat
> kiosk-type setup.
> 
> If you want a solution that 'just works', then either log off your
> primary display, or use a separate user with a separate GNOME profile.
> 
> (This is a bug in GNOME though, IMO, not your fault.)

FWIW, pulse runs quite happily with the same user logged in twice, it 
simply loads an xsession management module for each desktop in use by 
the user. Jobs a good 'un :)

Col

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