[pulseaudio-discuss] ubuntu flash pulseaudio multiuser

duportail poort at telenet.be
Thu Dec 23 10:46:59 PST 2010


Op 23-12-2010 19:02, Colin Guthrie schreef:
> 'Twas brillig, and duportail at 23/12/10 17:50 did gyre and gimble:
>> That did it Col, thanks.
>> I will look into the ACL's now.But have to write  an easy script to set
>> this up.
> Cool :)
>
>> Last question: what is  start-pulseaudio-x11 doing?Or what can be done
>> with this?
> Essentially it just loads a couple extra modules into PA (keeping in
> mind that that PA is a per-user daemon but each user can theoretically
> login on several X11 displays at the same time).
>
> One module keeps PA alive for the duration of the X11 session (normally
> PA will exit after a period of inactivity). A second module publishes
> connection credentials in the x11 root window. This allow us to piggy
> back on SSH's X11 forwarding so that you can SSH to a remote machine and
> run an X11 app and have it display on your local machine but also
> produce sounds on your local machine too (assuming you've enabled
> networking support in paprefs).
>
> These modules can't be loaded in default.pa as X11 may not be be present
> when PA starts up (e.g from a console) so this script is automatically
> run when the user logs into X (via XDG autostart .desktop files).
>
> Col
>
Ok,thanks
Can a pulseaudio sound card be attached to a X display ,for example 
display :0.0 and :0.1 ?

guy



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