Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, eben@gmx.us wrote:
> On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required:
> >
> > So then the question is *which* environment variable it is. I would
> > suspect it's one of the XDG_ variables,
>
> I did it the other way, by seeing which I remove to make the audio stop
> working. Probably easier in case there were more than one. Anyhow my
> testing shows the critical variable to be XDG_RUNTIME_DIR .
I found that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is necessary but not sufficient. I added
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" to my personal crontab, but this did not
solve the problem. I added
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)"
to bark.sh, but this also failed to solve the problem. Roger
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