PulseAudio under the hood

Re:PulseAudio under the hood by rhaps0dy on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:24AM (#15312427)

Or wise, and you take control of your own attention.

Multiplexing can be handy if you like gaming, and having music from another application at the same time.

Also sometimes it's useful to have a reference manual in one side of the screen and your text editor in the other, or a PDF viewer on one side and a LaTeX editor in the other.

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Re:PulseAudio under the hood by zeveb on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:51AM (#15312679)

I'm with you regarding the value of multiplexing. I don't use it much, but it was really annoying back in the day when one program would block another program's sound.

> Also sometimes it's useful to have a reference manual in one side of the screen and your text editor in the other, or a PDF viewer on one side and a LaTeX editor in the other.

True. An emacs which supported the framebuffer could do this (but GNU emacs currently only supports vt100, X, macOS & Windows, IIRC).

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Re:PulseAudio under the hood by bandrami on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:51AM (#15313247)

There are some framebuffer[1] consoles[2] that work really well when you do need to mux outside of X.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/

[2] https://code.google.com/archive/p/fbterm/

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