Switch user & sound

[Mike Benson]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 03:12 am,  ian <ian at eugeneweb.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, its strictly one sound server per device.  I think the
> problem is you need is for the second session to use the same sound
> server as the first one.

Yes, when artsd starts up, it locks the sound device in such a way that no 
other process can open it. Even on sound devices (like ALSA) that support 
multiple clients. That's annoying if not all your client programs are kde, 
and want to talk to the sound hardware in other ways :-(

artsd is capable of muxing multiple clients (including over a network), what 
the switch user process needs to do is connect the new user to the existing 
artsd, instead of starting a new one....

Mike