Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98144
On 7 October 2016 at 05:02, Alexander Betaev <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: pulseaudio > Version: 9.0-3 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I found that Pulseaudio in per user session mode does not allow all users to > use all devices I have on my machine. > Only ALSA devices may be shared across different user sessions without an > issue. > > I noticed such behaviour with native TCP device which is provided by my media > center (JIC, also runs Stretch under KVM with GFX passthrough), and with > Bluetooth device which works pretty well until you try to use it under another > user. > > In order to achieve working Bluetooth Headset I had to disable pulseaudio for > GDM3 user (Debian-gdm) because it grab it before my user almost each time. > > I believe there should be a hook which suspends pulseaudio when user looses > focus on his/her session and a hook to restore when user grabs session focus. > > The only way to use pulseaudio in multi-user installations now is to make it > system-wide which is also not recommended because of other issues > (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide/) I discussed this with upstream and they agree that this is only implemented for alsa devices. I have thus created an issue upstream, and am marking this bug as forwarded there. I have mainly focused in the bluetooth case since that is the most likely to cause problems for users. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-pulseaudio-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-pulseaudio-devel
