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Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon – PulseAudio
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/
When PulseAudio starts in the system mode, it will change its user and group from root to pulse in order to not have too many privileges. The pulse user needs to be in the audio and bluetooth groups in order to be able to use ALSA and bluetooth devices. All users that need access to PulseAudio have to be in the pulse-access group, even root.
Pulseaudio for multi-user Linux · Dhole's blog
https://dhole.github.io/post/pulseaudio_multiple_users/
pulseaudio server runs as my main user (I could actually create a new user just to run the pulseaudio server) Every user that belongs to the audio group is able to access the pulseaudio server (and thus play sound). For this, I just need to add the required users to the audio group: usermod -aG audio user
Pulseaudio - CSCWiki
https://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Pulseaudio
If you wish to debug pulseaudio on an office terminal, connect via ssh (so as not to spawn a default pulse instance by any application/desktop environment) and run pulseaudio -v to get extended output. Remember that you need to be in the …
PulseAudio as a Server · GitHub
https://gist.github.com/Earnestly/4acc782087c0a9d9db58
The pulseaudio user is both a member of the pulseaudio group to provide appropriate permissions on the socket pulseaudio creates and as a member of the audio group for access to the sound hardware (/dev/snd*). Make the pulseaudio user a member of any additional groups such as lp for bluetooth functionality.
audio - How to get PulseAudio running? - Raspberry Pi ...
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/639/how-to-get-pulseaudio-running
Install pulseaudio and make sure user (e.g. eric) is part of the audio group: sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils sudo adduser eric audio Change /etc/asound.conf look like the following. This sets up pulseaudio to be used as an alsa device by default so applications use it without any additional configuration.
PulseAudio/Examples - ArchWiki - Arch Linux
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Examples
Correct interaction with PulseAudio is done using a D-Bus based audio card "acquire/release" mechanism. When JACK server starts, it asks this D-Bus service to acquire the audio card and PulseAudio will unconditionally release it. When JACK server stops, it releases the audio card that can be grabbed again by PulseAudio.
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