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pashazz

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Registered: 2014-11-10

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] PulseAudio: sharing audio devices between different users

I have two users logged in at the same time.
The first logged in user has all the devices available:

The second user no devices:

besides the first  user's disabled device:

"Выключено" is russian for "Disabled"

Is there any way to share devices between users?

Last edited by pashazz (2017-01-09 12:03:28)

pashazz

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Registered: 2014-11-10

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio: sharing audio devices between different users

OK guys, the solution is fairly simple as I found:
The idea is that the first user creates an UNIX socket, the  rest are connected to that.

/etc/pulse/default.pa:

load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 socket=/tmp/pulseaudio-socket

/etc/pulse/client.conf

default-server = unix:/tmp/pulseaudio-socket

(one could use any filename)

I wonder why it is not a default behaviour as default certainly breaks things on a multi-user system.

megatux

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Registered: 2020-06-26

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio: sharing audio devices between different users

Use paprefs. It's a nice GUI. Enable the network access.
I found that reading the /etc/pulse/default.pa  file.
Worked for me with Steam