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oxygen_wobble

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Registered: 2012-05-20

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[SOLVED] How to start PulseAudio on demand ?

Hi!

Now, usually I'm a happy JACK user and haven't had PulseAudio installed in a decade, but I need it now for a streaming config involving Discord and some additional sources.

The thing is, there's always a pulseaudio process running ... I tried to disable socket and service, disable respawn in client.conf, but to no avail ...

So, what would be the recommended way to use PulseAudio when I actually need it, instead of running it all the time ? Other than uninstalling it every time after you need it, which wouldn't be very convenient ...

Best,
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Last edited by oxygen_wobble (2022-11-09 14:59:00)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] How to start PulseAudio on demand ?

mask the socket and start the service on it's own.

oxygen_wobble

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Registered: 2012-05-20

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Re: [SOLVED] How to start PulseAudio on demand ?

So, the service has to be running after all ? I masked the socket and tried to stop and disable the service but the process still popped up everytime I started a browser, etc ...

Edit: Sorry, I guess you mean that I should start the service when I need PA ... but still, masking the socket didn't really help ..

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] How to start PulseAudio on demand ?

preventing pulseaudio from getting started can be tricky .

Try renaming/moving /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop  (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Running ) .

If that is still not enough, verify if the troublesome program is satisifed when apulse provides pulseaudio support on alsa .
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apulse/

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oxygen_wobble

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Re: [SOLVED] How to start PulseAudio on demand ?

Ok, I now deleted the autostart file, disabled the socket and just about anything else, and that seemed to have worked ... thanks !

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] How to start PulseAudio on demand ?

Keep in mind the autostart file will be put back whenever pulseaudio is updated / re-installed .

Incase you want to prevent that, look up NoExtract option in pacman.conf manpage.

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