What the hell starts pulseaudio?!

[Tomasz CEDRO]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 4:09 PM Roderick wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>
> > Then I found this. Looks like exactly your question and the answer:
> >
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204522/how-does-pulseaudio-start
>
> An answer for systemd users. No wonder: Lennart Poettering seems to
> be a creation of Lennart Poettering.
>
> > Personally I like PulseAudio. It gives you lots of felxibility and
> > control over audio per application on the fly.
>
> I find this behaviour annoying. Not only because of security
> considerations.
> I consider it a bug.
>
> > 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?
>
> No, I do not like to do tricks to avoid something that should not happend.
>
> R.

Have you tried setting:

autospawn = no

in ~/.config/pulse/client.conf ?

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