[pulseaudio-discuss] setting a volume on a short lived stream

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 30.10.09 22:13, Brian J. Murrell (brian at interlinx.bc.ca) wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 19:28 -0400, Daniel Chen wrote: 
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Lennart Poettering
> > <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > > Dunno, maybe the PA backend for libcanberra is not installed? Ubuntu
> > > really should install that by default. It's kinda disappointing if
> > > they don't. Please file a bug against Ubuntu.
> > 
> > The PA backend for libcanberra is definitely seeded by default on the
> > installation and desktop images.
> 
> lsof says that metacity has opened the libcanberra[-gtk] library:
> 
> metacity 18592 brian  mem    REG  252,2    13772  282544 /usr/lib/libcanberra-gtk.so.0.1.1
> metacity 18592 brian  mem    REG  252,2    59036  279588 /usr/lib/libcanberra.so.0.1.7
> metacity 18592 brian  mem    REG  252,2    13776  317538 /usr/lib/libcanberra-0.15/libcanberra-alsa.so
> 
> Ah ha.  But somebody said "backend"  That above looks like
> metacity/libcanberra are using an ALSA "backend".  Let's see what kind
> of pulse alternative there is...  Yup...  Just installed
> "libcanberra-pulse".  Let's see how that changes the "user
> experience".  :-)

Hmm, how come this wasn't installed? Is your machine a pristine
installation? Did you actviley remove earlier? Or is it simply that
you have upgraded your system across distributions and since it wasn't
installed in the old version it wasn't after the upgrade either?

Lennart

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