[K12OSN] sound in Rhythmbox only works for one user
Gideon Romm
ltsp at symbio-technologies.com
Thu Aug 17 14:51:57 UTC 2006
Petre-
Try logging in as that user and either open a terminal and run:
gstreamer-properties (which will bring up a GUI and choose "esd" as the
audio sink) OR I believe in Fedora the same GUI can be opened by going
to: System -> Preferences -> Multimedia System Selector (or some
such)
(They keep moving the menu around, so I have gotten accustomed to
knowing how to run the GUIs from a terminal window ;) )
In the future, you could do: scp -r oldbox:/home/pam /home/
Be sure that all of the permissions and ownerships are preserved. I
usually prefer to use rsync, because if the connection breaks while
transferring the files, you can pick up where you left off.
Cheers,
-Gideon
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 07:56 -0500, Petre Scheie wrote:
> Thanks Gideon! That worked...mostly. The gconf-editor wasn't installed (should it have
> been?) so yum was my friend. After installing it and making the changes, sound on
> Rhythmbox started working for all the users except one. The one difference with this
> user is that I copied all her $HOME files from our old 4.2.2 server to her home
> directory on this new 5.0 server; she's the only one where I needed to do that. I
> suspect that some old setting/file was brought along that is interfering. To copy the
> files, I just used ran 'scp oldbox:/home/pam/* /home/pam/' on the new box. This isn't
> the best way because it seems to miss any hidden directories, e.g., .ssh/. So, OTOH, if
> I did bring along an interfering config file/directory, I'd expect it to be a hidden one
> of which I don't think I got many, if any. Any other ideas? Thanks for your help.
>
> Petre
>
> Gideon Romm wrote:
> > Petre-
> >
> > rhythmbox uses gstreamer. if you are using "esd" do this:
> >
> > 1. log in as a user with "sudo" privileges and run "sudo gconf-editor"
> > OR log in and "su" to root (NOTE: "su" not "su -") and run
> > "gconf-editor"
> > 2. Go to: system > gstreamer > 0.10 > default
> > 3. change the audiosink value to: "esdsink" and hit enter
> > 4. right click on that field and select "Set as Mandatory"
> >
> > Next time the user logs in, you should get sound from rhythmbox
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -Gadi
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 16:00 -0500, Petre Scheie wrote:
> >> I got Rhythmbox playing sound on the clients for one user (me, not as root), but when
> >> others try to play, say MP3 files, nothing happens when they click the Play button: no
> >> sound, the timer indicator doesn't move, etc. Perhaps a permissions issue somewhere?
> >> It's not a permissions issue on the MP3 files because the users can play those just fine
> >> through xmms. Does Rhythmbox need a special rc file or directory or some such in the
> >> users home directory which I might have but they're missing?
> >>
> >> Petre
> >>
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