#719: Pulseaudio interacts poorly with non-pulse apps
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Reporter: p-static | Owner: lennart
Type: defect | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: daemon
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment(by coling):
If pulse cannot open your device there is not much we can do about it as
pulse is predominantly a headless daemon. There is currently no official
application that monitors the status of pulse and can report on this. I do
have an experimental branch that implements a notifier module on X11 that
could be used for this, but it's not really something I think we should be
doing anyway.
If an application on your desktop is configured to directly access your
audio hardware then this is a problem for your distro to fix. Any distro
worth its salt should configure the 'default' audio device to route via
pulseaudio and any app that ignores this setting should be fixed. There
are so many things that need to be setup correctly to ensure a proper
sound stack and we can't really be guardians of all of those things.
In the last couple years I've never had flash or pidgin (both of which
generally run quite frequently on my system) ever hog the audio device, so
I don't think this is a problem that should affect anyone on a properly
configured system.
Anyway, like I say the biggest problem with your suggestion is that pulse
itself does not have a GUI and it thus has no way to "warn the user"
clearly or otherwise. Until my notifier branch gets finished, I don't see
a way of doing this in pulse itself.
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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/719#comment:1>
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