Maybe the main user doesn't know the path to the socket. As the main user try `pactl --server=/tmp/pulse-server info` If that works it confirms my suspicion.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:33 PM [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear list, > > I run a user in a desktop environment (KDE5) that starts pulseaudio. > > I´d like to grant other users on the same machine access in order to run > audio applications from a terminal with those users. And I would like to > achieve this using Unix sockets. > > Some web sites suggst to try this: > > client.conf=> > > default-server = unix:/tmp/pulse-server > > default.pa=> > > load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-group=audio \ > auth-anonymous=1 socket=/tmp/pulse-server > > That doesn´t work correctly. Actually the terminal users get access to > the main pulseaudio process, but, the main user, logged into KDE does > not get sound, though he started the pulseaudio daemon. > > All users are in group audio. And there´s no bogus > $HOME/.config/pulse/{client.conf,default.pa} files either. > > I´m using pulseaudio version 11.1 with kernel 5.4.7 > > Thanks for any hint! > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- Sincerely, Russell Treleaven sip:[email protected];transport=tcp
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