[CentOS] Pulseaudio pauses when switching virtual terminal?

James Pearson james-p at moving-picture.com
Fri Feb 8 16:46:07 UTC 2013


Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 08.02.2013 17:20, schrieb James Pearson:
> 
>>When using CentOS6/Gnome any audio playback will pause if I switch to 
>>other virtual terminals - and resume when I switch back to X
>>
>>Does anyone know if it is possible to configure pulseaudio (or some 
>>other means?) to allow audio to continue playing when switching virtual 
>>terminals?
> 
> 
> system-wide is what you need for google
> 
> pulse     1082  0.6  0.0 525320 13256 ?        S<l  Feb05  26:55 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=true --system=true
> --log-level=0 --log-target=stderr --disallow-module-loading=true --disallow-exit=true --exit-idle-time=0
> --disable-shm=true --no-cpu-limit=false --use-pid-file=false --resample-method=src-sinc-best-quality

Thanks - however, google brings me to 
<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide>

which seems to suggest that it is not a good idea ... do you know if 
there is a way to do what I would like - but not using system-wide ?

Thanks

James Pearson




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