Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] dtlogin & sound

[Johannes v. R. <jr...@vr...>]

On 02/23/2014 08:41 PM, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
> You are probably correct. But this means that one would not use pulse at
> all. (Pulse is already in the audio group
> so using pulse does not need to add users to that group). What you
> suggest is a solution for me and thank you for this.
> But I think that CDE should move forward, and something must be done
> centrally for this issue; i.e. in CDE's code.
> Unless it is decided that pulse is not the way to go for CDE.

The question probably is, how tightly we want to integrate PulseAudio
into CDE.

> Pulse is already started as a service in practically all linux
> distributions. Many applications come preconfigured for pulse
> like for example Skype. So CDE can take advantage of an already
> installed, running and widely used technology.

I would like to see the Linux community finally opting for one audio
soultion, and it seems to me, PulseAudio might be it. But i'd like to
keep in mind that there are plenty of alternatives, and Linux isn't the
only kid on the block.

> If it doesn't then dtlogin may face more problems in the future
> when it will be used by someone to login to, say, Mate which will
> require pulse.

Apparantly, the way PulseAudio is started differs from distro to distro.
But generally speaking, I fail to see how this has to be a job of the
login manager. When I started gnome-session (Gnome 2) from a pty in
rulevel 3 (before I added my user to the "audio" group), PulseAudio was
working without problems. But as I said earlier, I don't have much of an
insight into the workings of PulseAudio (It seems it's just a daemon,
but there's so much more going on...)

Cheers, J.

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