F8+KDE+PulseAudio
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Oct 23 23:41:09 UTC 2007
Neal Becker wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>
>>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here's some notes on making PulseAudio work with KDE,
>>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/PulseAudioKDE
>>>>> which turned out to be painfully easy.
>>>>
>>>> Really, to make this work, all we needed was pulseaudio getting
>>>> autostarted
>>>> with the session. After chatting on fedora-desktop, we tried the
>>>> /etc/X11/xinit.d/pulseaudio.sh containing
>>>> pulseaudio -D
>>>> solution (I initially had tried an over-complicated xdg/autostart
>>>> setup).
>>>>
>>>> Could this (or something like it) be considered for inclusion in F8's
>>>> pulseaudio pkg?
>>
>>> Did you mean /etc/X11/xinitrc.d ?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> -- Rex
>>
>>
>
> I tried this with amarok. I see that after starting pulseaudio, and
> selecting pulseaudio as output in amarok, seems to work. But, now I have
> instead of 2 volume controls to play with, 3 of them. One in amarok, one
> in kmix, and 1 in 'pulse audio volume control'. Not really user
> friendly.
>
Well, take either kmix(arts) or pa volume out, and you're back to 2.
fyi, just comitted a kde-settings-pulseaudio subpkg implementing the ideas
from the aforementioned PulseAudioKDE page, so now you're just a
yum install kde-settings-pulseaudio
away from trying it out. This is/will-be part of the default kde-desktop
install for f8.
Thanks all for the feedback.
-- Rex
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