Re: PulseAudio

[David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 19:41 +0100, Alexander Boström wrote:
> tis 2007-02-27 klockan 13:49 -0500 skrev David Zeuthen:
> 
> > That's only because PA decides to open the device directly and haven't
> > been taught to give it up on session inactivity. That's not hard to
> > change and it's the right thing to do *anyway* since we probably want a
> > default policy where audio is muted from inactive sessions just like
> > video is muted.  
> 
> Ok, so what are the problems with a really naive solution like this:
> 
> When a session is swapped out from a console, some system daemon revokes
> the ACL:s 

HAL can do this (it's a one-line change) and probably will depending on
a few things. To do this, HAL listens to ConsoleKit on the system
message bus.

> and signals the user PulseAudio daemon to give up the device.
> If it doesn't comply, more force will probably have to be used.
> (Timeouts in user interfaces suck though.)

If PA is running in the session, it could listen to ConsoleKit on the
system message bus. That's actually what I proposed.

     David