On 18/01/12 17:39, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:12:28PM +1300, Simon Geard wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 21:15 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: >>> So, my assumption is that Pulse may need extra steps to get it to >>> work outside a gnome desktop. >> Yes, it needs the user to run /usr/bin/pulseaudio, I believe. Under >> Gnome, this would be done automatically by the session manager, but I >> guess other desktops or WMs may need some manual effort. >> >> Simon. > Indeed. To my surprise, I'm running it under icewm. AFAIK I never > added it to .xinitrc on this box (previous test was on the other > box), and audio in this build wasn't working until after I'd used > gnome. > > What I don't see is how I'm starting it - hmm, syslog shows it's > being invoked by gnome-session! > > Checked .xinitrc, that isn't invoked (for icewm) as far as I can see. > I reworked my .xinitrc so that I could have a choice of wm without > going in and commenting / uncommenting blocks of shell code each time. > I would expect gnome-session to give me metacity and the gnome > wallpaper, but I have neither, just my normal icewm desktop. > > Oh well, added to my own bug-list, but for the moment it's 'not' > broken so I'm not spending time trying to fix it ;-) > > Actually, if I can debug this once I've got the main gnome-3 stuff > out of the way, I'll maybe be able to do more pulse testing on this > build. > > ĸen Pulse Audio is Normally started in /etx/xdg/autostart/pulseaudo.desktop
You can start it manually by start-pulseaudio-x11 from a terminal martin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
