Pulseaudio Multiple Sessions

Disable pulseaudio idle-exit and support multiple users

https://bkhome.org/news/202111/disable-pulseaudio-idle-exit-and-support-multiple-users.html

Before getting onto the subject of multiple users, one thing that has been a headache for me, and after some online reading a headache for many others, is the idle-exit of the pulseaudio daemon. Normally, a daemon is something that you start, and it keeps running for duration of the session. Not so with /usr/bin/pulseaudio.

selenium - Pulseaudio record multiple xfbv screens with ...

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/615237/pulseaudio-record-multiple-xfbv-screens-with-python

I’m able to record a session (video and audio) with python using xvfb and ffmpeg. I just want to visit a page using selenium and record the video and audio. It’s working but when I try to run multiple instances, the audio is mixing between records. How can achieve that? I’m …

Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon – PulseAudio

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/

Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon. Starting with PulseAudio 0.9.3 the daemon can be run as a system-wide instance which than can be shared by multiple local users. We recommend running the PulseAudio daemon per-user, just like the traditional ESD sound daemon. In some situations however, such as embedded systems where no real notion of a ...

[SOLVED] pulseaudio with multiple logins on the same ...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156057

Re: [SOLVED] pulseaudio with multiple logins on the same computer. Worked like a charm. After trying it twice, I added the command "pax11publish -r" to the session startup because I am using xfce, and pulseaudio is back in business.

PulseAudio/Examples - ArchWiki - Arch Linux

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Examples

Accessing pulseaudio sinks during an SSH session

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/683362/accessing-pulseaudio-sinks-during-an-ssh-session

Start pulseaudio in system mode with sudo pulseaudio --system -D. But this actually made things worse. Now, pactl list short sinks only lists the dummy sink both in SSH and local sessions, leaving me unable to play audio even from a local terminal even as root.