Bug#954159: pavucontrol: allow multiple instances
Package: pavucontrol Version: 4.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #954159 Upstream bug here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/-/issues/75 Attracting the usual level of developer interest for a freedesktop project. This seems to be the patch that introduced the broken behaviour: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/-/commit/f6ce4fb8db51489f6ab1210593695f465ccb83a0 Behaviour looks pretty entrenched - don't know how hard it would be to put it all under a commandline switch. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (5, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages pavucontrol depends on: ii libatkmm-1.6-1v5 2.28.0-3 ii libc62.31-13+deb11u2 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-7 ii libcanberra0 0.30-7 ii libgcc-s110.2.1-6 ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1 ii libglibmm-2.4-1v52.64.2-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-4 ii libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 3.24.2-2 ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 14.2-2 ii libpulse014.2-2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v52.10.4-2 ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6 Versions of packages pavucontrol recommends: ii pulseaudio 14.2-2 pavucontrol suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
Bug#954159: pavucontrol: allow multiple instances
I second this request. Another use-case which cannot be addressed with window manager hacks is starting pavucontrol with different PULSE_SERVER environment variables. My use case is controlling audio servers in the LAN. When routing a stream there, I’d typically want to have both my local pavucontrol and a pavucontrol with PULSE_SERVER=audioserver for remote controlling open. Thanks.
Bug#954159: pavucontrol: allow multiple instances
Package: pavucontrol Version: 4.0-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The changelog on https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/ for version 4.0 includes "There can now be only one pavucontrol window open at a time. Trying to start pavucontrol for a second time brings the first window to foreground.". This is a misfeature for the way I use pavucontrol. Previously, I would often have pavucontrol open on multiple desktops at once (e.g. I have a desktop for games and another one for TV streaming and want volume control on those two but not on others). (As this was called out in the upstream changelog, I don't really expect it to be changed, so some simple workarounds are (1) just set the window to show on all desktops or (2) make more use of the panel applet.) Thank you, Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_DIE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages pavucontrol depends on: ii libatkmm-1.6-1v5 2.28.0-2 ii libc62.30-2 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-7 ii libcanberra0 0.30-7 ii libgcc-s1 [libgcc1] 10-20200312-2 ii libgcc1 1:9.2.1-9 ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.1-1 ii libglibmm-2.4-1v52.62.0-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.14-1 ii libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 3.24.2-1 ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 13.0-5 ii libpulse013.0-5 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v52.10.2-1 ii libstdc++6 10-20200312-2 Versions of packages pavucontrol recommends: ii pulseaudio 13.0-5 pavucontrol suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
