Comments on: Pulseaudio for multiple users, without system-mode daemon

By: delt

delt — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 05:31:04 +0000

Works great on Mint 19.3, thanks!!

By: Nick Dietz

Nick Dietz — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:05:33 +0000

This helped fix my daughters problem of no sound running minecraft client on centos 7 under a separate minecraft user account. It was hard to understand why it didn’t work at first.

By: abc

abc — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:04:55 +0000

Skaperen, you’ve to create the directory yourself, if it’s not present

By: abc

abc — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:02:56 +0000

Still works in 2019. Thank you. The only suggestion, is that you should’ve written in caps “VERY EASY SOLUTION” on the first line. I was inclined to skip the article at first

By: Skaperen

Skaperen — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 17:50:05 +0000

it’s not working for me. there is no ~/.pulse directory in my Xubuntu 18.04.

i have 25 users on my laptop with typically 10 or more logged in at the same time. i jump from user to user often. i just want the music to keep on playing.

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:16:55 +0000

Thank you very much.

I used this solution for a longer time, but switched to unix socket. With this solution, there is no “master” user and you can control which users are allowed to use the socket by the “audio” group.

I followed this guide:
https://dhole.github.io/post/pulseaudio_multiple_users/

By: Camiel B

Camiel B — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:32:55 +0000

I did find this post when having the similar problem on KUbuntu 18.04 with firefox as of today.

The solution still works great ! Thanks a lot !

By: Flitter Mice

Flitter Mice — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 08:11:35 +0000

The solution with the socket seems to be better at first glance, but I switched back to the TCP approach because simultaneous output by both users did not work (say, I paused a YouTube video from user A, switched to user B and tried to play something else).
Maybe simply a permissions problem with the socket file?

By: Ray Chung

Ray Chung — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:43:45 +0000

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!

By: Sherif

Sherif — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:57:20 +0000

i have the same issue on embedded, but i have only one user here and can not switch to another user. can you help me ?