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dan.boff

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 42

kmix <-> pulseaudio

Hi!

I use the recent kde version and pulseaudio; I want to use kmix for switching output device, as it is possible with pavucontrol. My issue is that the pulseaudio integration doesn't seem to work properly right when booting linux, but it only works after quitting and re-opening kmix.

Could this be, because pulseaudio actually loads after kmix? if so, how can I fix this issue?

pulseaudio seems to be started from the xdg autostart folder atm, is there a way to start it directly with systemd?

sudo find / | grep pulseaudio:

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/pulseaudio
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop

dan.boff

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 42

Re: kmix <-> pulseaudio

I think I was able to solve this by myself:

I changed autospawn option in
/etc/pulse/client.conf 
to
autospawn = yes

However, I think that this option is acually the default one. Is there any reason why arch uses autospawn=no, is this a package bug maybe?

would you check your option for this pls?

cheers

BGK

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From: France

Registered: 2013-07-06

Posts: 30

Re: kmix <-> pulseaudio

Mine is set at no.
Here's the full file. I never edited this one, so i guess it's the Arch default version, although looks like the entry was added/injected somehow

msytux666 / # cat /etc/pulse/client.conf 
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
# USA.

## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See pulse-client.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; or # for
## commenting.

; default-sink =
; default-source =
; default-server =
; default-dbus-server =

autospawn=no
; autospawn = yes
; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio
; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog

; cookie-file =

; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB

; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no

Last edited by BGK (2013-07-28 22:46:18)