>> I've been launching aucat exactly the same way you are, including the >> test >> to see if it's already running. And of course it works just fine that >> way; >> my thinking was that since aucat is acting as a daemon, maybe I should >> be >> starting it somewhere other than in .xsession. >> > > IMO, thats best way to start it for now. This also allows to create > the socket in a private directory (by using -s option and the > exporting the AUDIODEVICE environment variable). > >> I notice that the aucat process stays alive across sessions (which was >> why >> I added the pgrep test in my .xsession; during testing I saw I had 8 >> aucats running!); is this the expected behavior? >> > > somewhat ugly, but yes, that's the expected behaviour. Each aucat > process will become the client of the previous one, because it > doesn't check if there's already anoter process running. > > -- Alexandre >
Excellent, thank you for your response and for all your work on aucat! -- Joe Gidi j...@entropicblur.com
