[pulseaudio-discuss] regular user to open mpd user pavucontrol

[Martin Hamant]

Hi !

I wanna make sure that my request is understandable -?  as English is 
not my native language it might be difficult to read, I can read that !

The point here is I would need my users (at least one) to be able to 
control mpd volume/routing properties, with pavucontrol

Thanks again !

Martin

Le 27/08/2012 12:23, Martin Hamant a écrit :
> Hi there !
>
> I am working on a custom ubuntu distribution (based on lucid) that runs:
>
> - mpd - as mpd user - spawning it's own pulseaudio session.  (it is 
> the default configuration).
> -  At least one regular graphical user that uses gnome and pavucontrol 
> ; who uses it's own pulseaudio session too.
>
> -  I want this normal user(s) to be able to control mpd's pulseaudio 
> properties !
> - I don't want to run mpd as a 'normal user'  - for many reasons... 
> the main reason is there is only one MPD daemon but there can be 
> several 'normal user'. And it would requires editing the config file 
> afterward the first user creation.
>
>  By reading http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio 
> <http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio> and using 'sudo -s -u mpd -H' I 
> was able to use pacmd, but launching pavucontrol just returns 
> "connection refused". Any idea ? ( I also see that as 'mpd' user , 
> strace'ing pavucontrol , it tries to connect to 
> /home/regularuser/.pulse/xxxx-runtime/native ... instead of 
> /home/mpd/...  ?)
>
> Any direction to achieve that ?
>
> Thanks !!

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