Devuan bug report logs - #480
Firefox - no sound

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Subject: bug#375 closed by Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> (Re:
 bug#480: Firefox - no sound)
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which was filed against the pulseaudio package:

#375: pulseaudio not started in xfce for regular user

It has been closed by Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>.

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

To: Michaela Merz <mischmerz@googlemail.com>

Cc: control@bugs.devuan.org, 480-close@bugs.devuan.org

Subject: Re: bug#480: Firefox - no sound

Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 19:44:01 +0100

reassign 480 pulseaudio
forcemerge 276 480


On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 12:06:42PM -0500, Michaela Merz wrote:
>    > > [1] http://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/Release_notes.txt > >
>    --00000000000000808705a7310ed4 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
>    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
>    Mark:
>    Rats. I enabled autospawn in client.conf, but forgot about
> 00-disable-autospawn.conf
> 
> Confirming that firefox works with audio now. Sory to bother you :(

Thanks.

Closing

Mark

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From: Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>

To: submit@bugs.devuan.org

Subject: pulseaudio not started in xfce for regular user

Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:09:03 +0100

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 12.2-4+deb10u1

Incorrect behavior: the .desktop file installed in
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop does not work correctly
for a regular user and pulseaudio is not started in xfce DE.
The .desktop file does start pulseaudio for the root user.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=PulseAudio Sound System

omissis

Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
GenericName=
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-KDE-autostart-phase=1

Partial fix:
changing Exec line to Exec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
works for regular users but not for the  root user.

Calling a wrapper script like:

#!/bin/sh
if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ] ; then
	start-pulseaudio-x11
else
	pulseaudio --start
fi

maybe could work for all users but i did not test it
and probably there is a more orthodox solution.

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