Preventing ConsoleKit from interrupting audio when switching consoles.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW [phone]]

Hi all,

      I use speech output for reading the screen.  Currently, I'm using 
espeak compiled to use portaudio.  Whenever I switch consoles, I have to 
wait a few seconds for audio output to resume.  I understand that 
ConsoleKit is responsible for the delay while it figures out if I'm the 
same user and should be allowed to use the audio device.

      If anyone knows how to disable this behavior, or knows fore sure that 
ConsoleKit can't be configured to accomplish this, I'd really like to hear 
about it.  With respect, what I don't need to hear about is how desirable 
folks think the current behavior is and how I should learn to love it too.

      Pulseaudio won't help either, until it can be made to run 
system-wide.

           TIA.




  --
           Bill in Denver

[William F. Acker WB2FLW [phone]]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, William F. Acker WB2FLW [phone] wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
>      I use speech output for reading the screen.  Currently, I'm using espeak 
>  compiled to use portaudio.  Whenever I switch consoles, I have to wait a few 
>  seconds for audio output to resume.  I understand that ConsoleKit is 
>  responsible for the delay while it figures out if I'm the same user and 
>  should be allowed to use the audio device.
>
>      If anyone knows how to disable this behavior, or knows fore sure that 
>  ConsoleKit can't be configured to accomplish this, I'd really like to hear 
>  about it.  With respect, what I don't need to hear about is how desirable 
>  folks think the current behavior is and how I should learn to love it too.
>
>      Pulseaudio won't help either, until it can be made to run system-wide.
>
>           TIA.
>
>
>
>
>  --
>           Bill in Denver
>  
      For anyone who runs into this in the future, I found a clumsy 
workaround.  After logging into all the consoles and the GUI, one can just 
do: killall console-kit-daemon.  Something restarts it, but without the 
ugly behavior.  If a console is accidentally logged out of and then logged 
back in, it's just necessary to re-kill the troublesome daemon.

           Hope this helps someone.

-- 
           Bill in Denver