On Wed, 10.02.10 10:45, Maarten Bosmans (mkbosm...@gmail.com) wrote: > The other mode is the system-wide daemon mode. This follows more the > traditional unix model of a dedicated pulse user running a daemon to > which other users can connect. The system mode is more applicable to > an audio server/appliance scenario.
I would actually argue that the normal per-session PA logic is much more unixish than anything else. At least on my classic TTYs the bell sound was actually generated in the terminal computer and not on the server computer. And on the old standalone X terminals, it's the very same thing. XBell() is called on the terminal server, and the X terminal generates the sound. So, what was true for teletype and X terminals back in the 80s, where the beep sound was played by an app on the terminal server and generated on the terminal client, is still true in the PA world: the audio stream a music player app plays on the terminal server is played back on the terminal client. So, once and for all, if someone complains that PA wasn't unixish enough: first of all, I don't care, and secondly that's a completely bogus statement and is not true. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
