[LAU] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Wed Sep 8 18:46:36 UTC 2010


Excerpts from Paul Davis's message of 2010-09-08 18:57:38 +0200:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > So the question remains, is there a single configuration setting or
> > environment variable that can prevent applications from even trying to
> > use pulseaudio API directly? Despite Lennart's warning, it seems like
> > most gnome applications have this problem, which lead me to believe
> > that underlying gnome libs are the ones using the pulseaudio API
> > directly.
> 
> gnome (not gtk) apps use the following gconf settings for sound output
> 
> system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/audiosink
> system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/chataudiosink
> system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/musicaudiosink
> 
> my machines have the first and last of these set to: jackaudiosink
> buffer-time=2000000
> 
> and as a result all my gnome apps (and firefox too) route audio via
> jack. there are other options too.

What I wonder about since a long time is how to set this kind of stuff
without gnome/gconf.
-- 
Philipp

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