Re: Tried Pulse Audio Again--No Good For A11y

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Chuck Anderson writes:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > 5.)	While I paplay, I try to go Ctrl-Alt-F1. While I'm not prevented
> > from doing so, paplay believes it should pause playing while I'm away
> > from the gui tty. Now, who's the genius that figured out this "feature?"
> 
> That's ConsoleKit deactivating the streams on the non-active console.  
> This is so mult-user-switching can work and each user can have their 
> own audio.
> 
OK. Thanks for the explanation.

So, the concept limits audio to a single console, even if the same user
is logged in somewhere else? I guess running pa as a systen daemon would
not exhibit this behavior?

Janina

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