[arch-general] System-Wide Pulseaudio

arnaud gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com
Sat Sep 7 05:32:27 EDT 2013


> 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.
>
>
> Do you have mpd installed on your system ? If not, I would first consider
it. In your case, it will be the easiest way to share a common music
library and settings between all your sessions.
 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpd

If already installed, please share your mpd configuration.


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