[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

[Markus Rechberger]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:01 AM,  <olin.pulse.7ia at shivers.mail0.org> wrote:
> Bill Cox:
>> While the "right" way is not system-wide mode, in practice, I find
>> system-wide mode to be very stable and usable on Ubuntu systems that
>> have multiple users trying to send sound to the speakers.
>
> So, I'm still wondering: what *is* the "right way" for this use case? Is it
> the case that PulseAudio just doesn't address it?

There is no right way pulseaudio was not designed to support multiple
users at the same time (without the depreciated exception of running
it as system wide daemon).

Markus