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Lord Bo

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Registered: 2012-11-11

Posts: 168

Correct way to start PulseAudio?

I recently installed pulseaudio (and pulseaudio-alsa). Reading the wiki I thought, that PulseAudio would be started automatically for each user. I started pavucontrol and it just waited for pulseaudio being started, so PulseAudio wasn't started automatically. Also "systemctl | grep pulse" outputs nothing and I tried to enable pulseaudio.socket - No such file or directory -, so I assume that the pulseaudio.socket service file is missing. Is PulseAudio no longer to be started by systemd?

I then put "autospawn=yes" into /etc/pulse/client.conf. This however caused another error to occeur with pavucontrol (complains about a wrong configuration).

However starting pulseaudio manually (pulseaudio --start) works.

Does anyone know the correct way to start it at startup?

Last edited by Lord Bo (2015-12-25 13:28:55)

twelveeighty

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From: Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,138

Re: Correct way to start PulseAudio?

Pulse installs a .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop which runs "start-pulseaudio-x11". If you don't run a DE that automatically starts the .desktop files in that folder on log-in then you will have to find another way to auto-launch that app.

tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

Posts: 897

Re: Correct way to start PulseAudio?

Socket is enabled by default:

systemctl --user status pulseaudio.socket

If you want pulseaudio to start right after login:

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio