[arch-general] System-Wide Pulseaudio

[arnaud gaboury]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Dennis Lange <dennis at lumalab.net> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I like to run more than one user in more than one X session at the same
> time and want to hear the audio from all users together.
>
> So i thought it would be nice to have a System-Wide Pulseaudio setup.
>
> I try to use this package:
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pulseaudio-systemd/
>
> and like shown here:
>
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/
>
> I put all users into pulse-access group after installing the
> pulseaudio-systemd package and reboot, but it will not work.
>
> Have anyone a hint for this situation?
>

I may give you some help as I already installed some sound servers for
Hotels, with numerous outputs and playlists, but what you want is not clear
to me.
I'm not sure to understand :

> I like to run more than one user in more than one X session at the same
> time and want to hear the audio from all users together.

let's say user1 is connected on session1 with mpd1, user2 on session2 with
mpd2.
Is it ok ?
Then you want to stream the 2 playlists at the same time ?? Sounds weird.

Please precise.