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On 9/10/20 1:29 AM, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
Hi Tomas,
On Wed, 09 Sep 2020, 17:29:44 +0200, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
I expected confusion, ....
To clarify - I am not asking about forwarding sound through remote connection to ssh/vnc client side.
I would like to figure out how to access sound devices on vnc server to play sounds on vnc server.
As described in the original post - it seems that something is restricting access to local HW devices on the server. Perhaps it is not access control/ restriction, but some conflict or exclusive access from something on the server side. I am not sure.
first thing which comes to mind is group "audio"; IIRC only members of the "audio" group are allowed to access sound related devices. When you're using PulseAudio, there might be an issue if it allows access for other/remote services at all. You can use "paprefs" to allow/disallow access to those devices which PA already controls on your local system.
This is no longer true, now it is managed by logind, I can "ssh -X" into my desktop from my laptop launch clementine and play music through my desktop speakers, however that might also be related to me also being currently logged into that machine although they were treated as separate sessions. How to configure logind / polkit to allow non graphical users to have audio, i've only really messed with it for network. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/loginctl.html# -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B