[lug] access to audio from non-desktop login

[John Hernandez]

If you're running Firefox, an alternative might be to run them both as
the same desktop user.  You should be able to use the 'firefox -P
<profile>' command-line to run a separate Firefox instance that uses
your proxy settings.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Michael J. Hammel
<mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:
> At work I have a secondary userid I've set up that can open windows on
> the desktop for my primary userid.  I open a Firefox browser from that
> user that is configured to use a local proxy that is tunneled through to
> my home.  From that browser I can access my web servers at home via the
> tunnel.  In this way I have two browsers running - one that uses a proxy
> (for secondary userid) and one that doesn't (for primary userid).
>
> However, the secondary userid browser is not run from the desktop userid
> so it can't play audio.  Is there a way to enable a non-desktop login to
> access the audio at the same time as the desktop login under Fedora 9?
> If I can enable audio then I can access my music and video collections
> at home via mythweb.
>
> FYI - I know streaming through the tunnel works since I can access the
> collections in my primary userid browser if I change it to use the
> proxy.  So the only problem is enabling audio for the secondary userid
> so I don't have to switch proxy configurations repeatedly.
> --
> Michael J. Hammel                                    Principal Software Engineer
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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