What the hell starts pulseaudio?!

[Tomasz CEDRO]

Another, user level, trick to prevent applications spawning PulseAudio
is ~/.config/pulse/client.conf:
autospawn = no



On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 3:53 PM Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 1:42 PM Roderick wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> > > What Window Manager do you use? Maybe this guy.. or its audio mixer? :-)
> > It is written in my original mail.
>
> Sorry, TWM does not start it, its the Firefox, or any other
> application linked against libpulse* will spawn local user service
> with stream/dgram socket communication (not TCP!) :-)
>
> sockstat | grep pulse
> XXX       pulseaudio 99706 5  stream /home/XXX/.xdg/pulse/native
> XXX       pulseaudio 99706 8  stream -> /tmp/dbus-URrI0C27hY
> XXX       pulseaudio 99706 9  stream /home/XXX/.xdg/pulse/native
> XXX       pulseaudio 99706 11 dgram  -> /var/run/log
> XXX       pulseaudio 99706 41 stream -> /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
> XXX       enlightenm 98712 73 stream -> /home/XXX/.xdg/pulse/native
>
> At first I though htop and ps auxd could show process tree with
> parent, but in my case there was no parent, what seems reasonable
> because it should work even after its spawning process terminates.
>
> Then I found this. Looks like exactly your question and the answer:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204522/how-does-pulseaudio-start
>
> Personally I like PulseAudio. It gives you lots of felxibility and
> control over audio per application on the fly.
>
> If you do not like it you may want to try remove / lock the package
> and/or put a link to /use/bin/true in place of the binary?
>
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> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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