Am 17.05.2015 um 14:20 schrieb Mikhail Morfikov:
On Sun, 17 May 2015 12:55:18 +0200
Reindl Harald <[email protected]> wrote:

Am 17.05.2015 um 12:46 schrieb Mikhail Morfikov:
Is that possible? I'm asking because I often listen to the music
and I don't really need my monitor to be on most of the time, so I
just lock the screen. But when I lock the screen, the active
session becomes inactive and amarok stops playing. And yes, the
screen should be locked, and not just turned off

that's a pulseaudio problem and if you run pulsed as system-wide
audio is indepdendent of sessions and you may want to look at MPD
which can even start playing music after power on the machine without
login


I see, I've read this article:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/
and I've changed the pulseaudio config file a little bit:

allow-module-loading = no
allow-exit = no
system-instance = yes
enable-shm = no
exit-idle-time = -20

then I started pulseaudio in the system mode and I was able to play
sound all the time. But there's another question -- is there any
difference between pulseaudio in system mode and pulseaudio in user
mode + adding specific users to the "audio" group? I mean in the link I
had given in the previous post, you can read something like this: "By
the way, you don't want users permanently added to groups like audio or
video. Such user would be able to ssh into the machine while you are
using it and spy on you using webcam, microphone etc. Access to such
critical peripherals should only be granted for active user." Does this
concern pulseaudio in the system mode with users added to the
pulse-access group?

well, the real question is

* do you have a webcam or microphone
* do you have other users which are allowed to use ssh

i don't have any of them and so there is no point in secure my audio output to fore me login in a grapical session and lose music at logout

MPD is running 365/24/7 and even if a different user is logged in he is allowed to listen to music on the connected HiFi and connect with a mpd client to switch it - 95% of all systems out there are fine with that and the defaults are for the remaining 5%


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