[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio runs as mpd user after login

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Maystar at web.de at 22/07/11 09:54 did gyre and gimble:
> Are there any tutorials explaining the complex solution for this
> problem? Perhaps some day I will do this thing nice.

Well the "complex" solution I had in mind isn't really possible without
hacking code.

It kinda ties in with how the accessability stuff will work. I intend to
discuss this at the Desktop Summit with some other guys so we know how
this is all going to work.

Ultimately it revolves round splitting MPD into a player and a consumer.
PA will run under an idle session and the idle user will run a MPD
consumer (read the data from mpd, and play it out via PA). This means
that when the machine is idle, MPD can play audio on it's own.

When a user logs in, they idle session will be suspended (as the system
now has an "active" user). It will be up to this user to run an
mpd-consumer. i.e. it'll be the users choice that they want to hear the
MPD audio. Different users may feel differently about it.


The same essential architecture is what I envisage for accessability
stuff. e.g. you configure the "idle" system to do text-to-speech stuff
(so that logins etc. are accessible) but after you log in, it's up the
individual users whether they want TTS stuff running or not. That way
blind and sighted users could share the same system quite happily
without any problems.

This is all a little rough at the moment, but hopefully some more solid
designs can be worked out at the Desktop Summit.

We're having a PA BoF at the Desktop Summit so if you are near Berlin,
feel free to pop along.

Cheers

Col




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