Alex Kost transcribed 0.8K bytes: > Ludovic Courtès (2017-04-03 12:08 +0200) wrote: > > > Florian Paul Schmidt <[email protected]> skribis: > > > >> If the PulseAudio installation shipped with GuixSD is "sane" then it > >> will provide a virtual ALSA pcm device and will globally route the pcm > >> device called "default" to this virtual PCM device. This device will > >> provide stream mixing, etc.. > > > > FWIW I have ~/.asoundrc with: > > > > pcm.!default { > > type pulse > > } > > > > to “reroute” ALSA applications to PulseAudio. > > > > I’m not sure whether we should do that by default, or install this > > .asoundrc for newly-created accounts. I guess some people may not want > > it. > > At least I'm one of those people :-) I even have the following in my > .bash_profile to make sure that pulseaudio is never used: > > export AUDIODRIVER=alsa > export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa > > -- > Alex >
I have an idea: Default to include it. We could have a setting which can be defined in the (operating-system) to set (profile-creation-asoundrc #f).
