{"id":84,"date":"2012-08-23T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2012-08-23T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:16:26","slug":"linux-tip-making-pulseaudio-work-with-multiple-users-on-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/23\/linux-tip-making-pulseaudio-work-with-multiple-users-on-fedora\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Tip: Making pulseaudio work with multiple users (on Fedora)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick tip for people who use multiple user accounts at once on Fedora. (I test software using brand new user accounts sometimes, for example. I&#8217;ve heard of others may use multiple user accounts to try and sandbox applications they expect to misbehave. [I recommend a VM for this, FWIW.])<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever switched users in Fedora and couldn&#8217;t get sound to work (<tt>su - testuser<\/tt> or <tt>ssh testuser@localhost<\/tt>) this tip is for you!<\/p>\n<p>First, you need to install <tt>paprefs<\/tt>:<\/p>\n<p><code># yum install paprefs<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Then, as the default desktop user, run the command:<\/p>\n<p><code>$ paprefs<\/code><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screenshot-from-2012-08-23-111228.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85\" title=\"Papref's configuration screen\" src=\"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screenshot-from-2012-08-23-111228.png\" alt=\"Papref's configuration screen\" width=\"550\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screenshot-from-2012-08-23-111228.png 550w, https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Screenshot-from-2012-08-23-111228-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Make sure &#8220;Enable network access to local sound devices&#8221; is checked.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then click [ Close ] and sound will work perfectly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick tip for people who use multiple user accounts at once on Fedora. (I test software using brand new user accounts sometimes, for example. I&#8217;ve heard of others may use multiple user accounts to try and sandbox applications they expect to misbehave. [I recommend a VM for this, FWIW.]) If you&#8217;ve ever switched\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/23\/linux-tip-making-pulseaudio-work-with-multiple-users-on-fedora\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/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":[6,3,16],"tags":[19,18,21,17,20,24],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome","category-technology","category-tips","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-multiuser","tag-pulseaudio","tag-sound","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}