Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?
Colin Walters
walters at verbum.org
Fri Sep 12 21:06:01 UTC 2008
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
>> If you want to run terminal applications, can't you just log in to a
>> full screen gnome-terminal?
>
> I got the impression that Janina was talking about those who need
> audio to be able to login in the first place.
Probably both. In any case, our answer is GDM and gnome-terminal.
> Those have been useful to me in a lot of circumstances that I don't
> see going away anytime soon. Here are a few just off the top of my
> head.
>
> 1. It's late. I'm tired. I log out, then remember some small system
> administration task I meant to do. Rather than wait for all the GUI
> stuff to reload as I log back in, it is much faster to switch to a
> text console, login there, do my task, then log back out.
"Login is slow" - something we know about and makes sense to fix,
rather than having an entirely different way to log in. Another
answer is that if you hold down a magic key sequence (say
Ctrl-Shift-t) then you get just gnome-terminal.
> 2. I'm playing some game that runs at a low resolution and it crashes.
> I don't know why, but my mouse is almost always nonfunctional
> afterwards. When my desktop is at 320x200 and I can't use the mouse,
> regaining control is difficult. I often switch to a text console so I
> can clean up some running programs in a nice way before I
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get my X back.
First, fix the app. Second, invest some in making the system robust
against applications that crash. Third, land
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CrashHandling so you don't need
to use GDB manually.
> 3. I launch some X program that consumes 100% CPU and is clearly out
> of control. In those cases, the mouse becomes sluggish. It can take
> a very long time to either launch a gnome-terminal or get the mouse
> over a gnome-terminal so I can click on it, have the click actually
> move the focus to that window, type the command to kill the process,
> have the typed text actually show up on the gnome-terminal, press the
> Enter key, then wait the shell to process the command. It is MUCH
> faster to switch to a text console, login, kill the process, logout,
> and switch back to X.
I don't see that problem here with an app just burning a core. Now if
you're in swap, obviously that's a whole other issue.
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