How to get output devices to appear in PulseAudio?

[Colin Law]

On 31 December 2012 10:09, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> ...
> One can't use 'proper X' with modern applications because (as I said)
> they depend on D-Bus etc.  However I guess that one *can* use VNC
> because that effectively transfers control of the whole desktop from one
> machine to another.

Can you give an example of an app that shows that problem?  I
occasionally use ssh -X and then run an X app from the ssh shell
without problems.  Perhaps I have just been lucky with the apps I have
tried.

Colin