Tried Pulse Audio Again--No Good For A11y
Janina Sajka
janina at rednote.net
Tue Sep 16 22:05:27 UTC 2008
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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