Multi-users access to audio (pulseaudio?)

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Wed Nov 3 14:10:58 UTC 2010


S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> On 2010-10-20, 20:17, stan wrote:
>> There is a way to use pulseauido as a system server, but as I 
>> understand it there are flaws or issues.
> 
> Yes. Apparently more like a hack than a supported feature.
> 
>> One, I think, is that everyone hears everything from everyone 
>> else.  If there is only one device on the system, and two 
>> people want to play different music through it, they will both 
>> play at the same time.  Probably not what you want.
> 
> Actually, seems to be the only reasonable semantic given the 
> situation, and exactly what I want. I run some application as 
> different user id for separation purposes, but I want all 
> application have access to sound.

I run different applications as different users, just like you.
The only good method to have sound sharing (consisting often in
simple beeps from chat programs) is to run pulseaudio in system
mode (the deprecated/unsupported/ohmygod one).

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