Bug#954159: pavucontrol: allow multiple instances

[Daniel Perelman]

Package: pavucontrol
Version: 4.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The changelog on https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/ for
version 4.0 includes "There can now be only one pavucontrol window open at a
time. Trying to start pavucontrol for a second time brings the first window to
foreground.". This is a misfeature for the way I use pavucontrol.

Previously, I would often have pavucontrol open on multiple desktops at once
(e.g. I have a desktop for games and another one for TV streaming and want
volume control on those two but not on others).

(As this was called out in the upstream changelog, I don't really expect it to
be changed, so some simple workarounds are (1) just set the window to show on
all desktops or (2) make more use of the panel applet.)

Thank you,
Daniel



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_DIE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pavucontrol depends on:
ii  libatkmm-1.6-1v5         2.28.0-2
ii  libc6                    2.30-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0       0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0             0.30-7
ii  libgcc-s1 [libgcc1]      10-20200312-2
ii  libgcc1                  1:9.2.1-9
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.64.1-1
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1v5        2.62.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.24.14-1
ii  libgtkmm-3.0-1v5         3.24.2-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0  13.0-5
ii  libpulse0                13.0-5
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5        2.10.2-1
ii  libstdc++6               10-20200312-2

Versions of packages pavucontrol recommends:
ii  pulseaudio  13.0-5

pavucontrol suggests no packages.

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