[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 08.02.10 21:01, olin.pulse.7ia at shivers.mail0.org (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?

On a headless system, or on a system where no local users exist
(i.e. thin clients), use the system-wide mode. On multi-user systems,
don't.

Lennart

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