Arch Linux

Labello

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2010-01-21

Posts: 317

Website

[solved] pulseaudio should not autostart

Hello everyone!

I recently installed pulseaudio to more comfortably play games on steam while listening to music or voicechat. But generally I have a nice little external DAC that performs best when not confronted with resampled sound. But since pulseaudio does not support NOT resampling I wanted to use it only when neccessary. But I recently discovered that my sound had gotten kinda weird and that Firefox played sound while I was listening to music which should not even be possible. So I fired up htop and discovered that pulseaudio was running. I just installed it. I activated no deamon and am running an i3 session activated by lightdm. So how is this possible and how can I disable this behaviour?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Last edited by Labello (2015-04-20 09:18:04)

---

"They say just hold onto your hope but you know if you swallow your pride you will choke"
Alexisonfire - Midnight Regulations

ooo

Member

Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: [solved] pulseaudio should not autostart

try this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … dio_server

Don't miss the last note about .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart/, even though I don't know if that matters with i3

Labello

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2010-01-21

Posts: 317

Website

Re: [solved] pulseaudio should not autostart

Thank you! I feel stupid though for this question. :-/

---

"They say just hold onto your hope but you know if you swallow your pride you will choke"
Alexisonfire - Midnight Regulations