On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:55:27PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:32:34PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > With modern GNOME, it's quite convenient to have multiple users logged in at > > the console and switch between them, as in Windows XP, and that is the > > scenario that we would like to provide for. > > > > Do you know of a better way to make this work with esd? > > Yes, as I said: > > > > What might be better for the default Debian permissions setup is to > > > make the socket for public use by anyone in the audio group.
I don't think that addresses all of the issues. If the first user logs out, it shouldn't cause the second user's apps to have esd yanked out from under them, they should be able to have independent audio preferences, etc. > With your solution, if the first user leaves anything playing sound (game, > music player, etc) running, additional users won't be able to get any sound. That isn't true with dmix. > Also, even with your modified proposal on the socket name, only the first > user to login can use third party applications. I'm willing to accept that tradeoff, given that it's more important to me for free software to be robust than for commercial software to be robust. It doesn't break it outright, and it still works in the cases where it works today (with only one user running esd). -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
