[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 04/01/10 19:06 did gyre and gimble:
> I agree.
> 
>> and that adding hooks to consolekit (if they don't exist) and the
>> concept of an "idle user" are probably more practical long term
>> solutions.
> 
> "idle user"? By that you mean some pseudo user session that the
> speakup daemon could be run under? If so, I agree.

Yeah, the idea I was generally blundering around was that the "idle
user" was a ck psuedo session that is "active" when no other session is
marked as active - e.g. while sitting at a tty login prompt.

I don't know if the getty system could launch a psuedo session itself so
that ck doesn't specifically need to be aware of "idle" status - it was
just my way of imagineering how I'd approach the problem which (by the
sounds of things) was along the right lines (\o/)

Col


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