[arch-general] System-Wide Pulseaudio

[arnaud gaboury]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Dennis Lange <dennis at lumalab.net> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Thanks for taking care!
>
> > 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.
>
> To be 100% precise I am using only one System and in X session 1 I login
> as user1 to do more regular stuff like hearing webradio writing mails
> doing serious stuff.
>
> In X session 2 I login as user2 for the fun part. Here I compile and
> patch my own wine to play some windows games and use Teamspeak to get
> the swag out there.
>
> In X session 3 I login as user3 to do the evil secret stuff. Netfilter
> is knowing my user3 and does not allow him to talk to the network
> because of his brilliant evil genius.
>
> But I want to hear audio from all users and X sessions no matter which
> account is the active one. So if I am doing my evil secret stuff, I will
> hear webradio and the flame war from Teamspeak.
>
>
> Ok. Last question : for example, when logged as user2, you want being able
to listen playlist of user1 & user3.
Am I correct ?