I’ve been trying to solve this problem for a long while and never figured it out — even after reading lots of posts with the correct solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that I’ve finally figured it out, I’m writing it down here so I can find the solution later. (And maybe it’ll help someone else…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wait… What? Why? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My typical usage of my Linux desktop is single user. Your usage is likely the same. Why would you even want to use multiple users at the same time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are a number of reasons you might want to do this, but I often test software on my machine without using a container or a VM. I do this by creating a new user account and either using This post details the basics on how to do this.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n But here are the real details with emphasis on the part I missed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In \/etc\/pulse\/default.pa<\/strong> find a line that says On my machine, this line is part of a block that looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Change that line to say: It should now look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now edit \/etc\/pulse\/client.conf<\/strong> and add this line: The above steps will make pulseaudio multiuser, but will ALSO<\/em> have the effect of stopping pulseaudio from starting correctly. Now we need to fix that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Create a new file called ~\/.config\/autostart\/pulseaudio.desktop<\/strong> and insert:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You should restart pulseaudio after these changes. The easiest way is to log out and log back in. (But you can also kill the process by running I’ve been trying to solve this problem for a long while and never figured it out — even after reading lots of posts with the correct solution. Now that I’ve finally figured it out, I’m writing it down here so I can find the solution later. (And maybe it’ll help someone else…) Using audio on\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}su<\/code> or ssh<\/code> to switch users.<\/p>\n\n\n\nload-module module-native-protocol-unix<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n### Load several protocols\n.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so\nload-module module-esound-protocol-unix\n.endif\nload-module module-native-protocol-unix\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 socket=\/tmp\/pulse-socket<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n### Load several protocols\n.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so\nload-module module-esound-protocol-unix\n.endif\nload-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 socket=\/tmp\/pulse-socket\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
default-server = unix:\/tmp\/pulse-socket<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n[Desktop Entry]\nVersion=1.0\nName=PulseAudio\nGenericName=Soundi Server\nComment=Start the Sound Server\nExec=pulseaudio -D\nTerminal=false\nType=Application\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
pulseaudio --kill; pulseaudio -D<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"