I’m using OpenSuse 11.3… sometimes I listen to a music from youTube…
but, when I switch to another console (CTRL+ALT+F1-5), music stops… why?
what will happen with other applications (database, etc) that work in a background?
could I change that?
tnx 
I can imagin why. As soon as you change your session, the control over mouse, kyboard, monitor is taken over by another session, why not the loudspeakers? Yo could not only login in one of the console sessions and start music there from the CLI, but also from another GUI session (F8 …) and run, as another or as the same user, music. That would make a nice mix when all of those session where usng the loudspeakers together.
I do not understand what you mean by “what will happen with other applications (database, etc) that work in a background?”. The music you mentioned is of course NOT running in the background. Processes that run in the background are by definition not connected to an interactive user session and don’t care if and how many of these sessions are there.
On 2011-01-05 17:36, hcvv wrote:
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> I can imagin why. As soon as you change your session, the control over
> mouse, kyboard, monitor is taken over by another session, why not the
> loudspeakers?
This is a new “feature” to me. I tried with xine, put a movie running, switched to text console, and
yes, sound went off. Xine continues running, but without sound. Curious. This is new.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))
I have 11.2 and music does not stop at going to another screen (Ctrl-Alt-F*) or changing to a new GUI user on a new screen. In the latter case the “logon tune” plays straight through the music from the other session. Matbe people complained about that and thus the change was made.
On 2011-01-07 13:06, hcvv wrote:
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> I have 11.2 and music does not stop at going to another screen
> (Ctrl-Alt-F*)
I’m on 11.2 too, and it stops. …] Wait. It stopped in my laptop, it does
not stop on my desktop. Both using gnome and 11.2. This is very curious…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Mine is using KDE. More curious!
On 2011-01-07 15:36, hcvv wrote:
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> Mine is using KDE. More curious!
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I tried again in the laptop: with xine, sound stopped on switch to VT-1. With mplayer sound
continued - both tests playing the same file. Xine played via alsa plugin (to pulse, I understand),
and showed as an application in sound preferences, but mplayer did not. So it is probably pulse
which does this trick.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))