What starts /usr/bin/pulseaudio?

[JD]

I looked in /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd, recursively,
and none of the services or dependencies have the string
pulseaudio in them.

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/06/2015 07:34 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> I looked in /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd, recursively,
> and none of the services or dependencies have the string
> pulseaudio in them.

FWIW, I tried the two following commands and got nothing from either of 
them:

ps aux | grep pulse | grep -i grep
ps aux | grep audio | grep -i grep

Checking, Xfce starts it when I log in, which explains why my morning 
alarm clock doesn't sound off if my computer reboots and I haven't 
logged back in yet.

[JD]

On 07/06/2015 08:52 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 07/06/2015 07:34 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> > I looked in /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd, recursively,
> > and none of the services or dependencies have the string
> > pulseaudio in them.
>
> FWIW, I tried the two following commands and got nothing from either 
> of them:
>
> ps aux | grep pulse | grep -i grep
> ps aux | grep audio | grep -i grep
>
> Checking, Xfce starts it when I log in, which explains why my morning 
> alarm clock doesn't sound off if my computer reboots and I haven't 
> logged back in yet.

You command ought to be
ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep

not -i

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/06/2015 08:19 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> You command ought to be
> ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep

Thank you; I sit corrected.

[Tethys]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:19 AM, jd1008  wrote:
> > ps aux | grep pulse | grep -i grep
>
> [...]
>
> You command ought to be
> ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep

Well no. It should be:

pgrep -a pulse

Tet

[JD]

On 07/07/2015 10:11 AM, Tethys wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:19 AM, jd1008  wrote:
> > > ps aux | grep pulse | grep -i grep
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > You command ought to be
> > ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep
>
> Well no. It should be:
>
> pgrep -a pulse
>
> Tet

I was just reminding Joe that to -v in order not to see the grep command 
in the output.
There was nothing else wrong with Joe's one liner.

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/07/2015 09:22 AM, jd1008 wrote:
> I was just reminding Joe that to -v in order not to see the grep command
> in the output.
> There was nothing else wrong with Joe's one liner.

Yes.  I'd had a brain-fart and thought that -i was for ignore instead of 
checking.

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/07/15 10:34, jd1008 wrote:
> I looked in /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd, recursively,
> and none of the services or dependencies have the string
> pulseaudio in them.

It depends on the desktop.

In KDE, kdeinit5 will call /bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 and if in /etc/pulse/client.conf autospawn is set to yes (default) then pulseaudio will be started with the parameters specified in that config file.

[Rex Dieter]

jd1008 wrote:
> I looked in /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd, recursively,
> and none of the services or dependencies have the string
> pulseaudio in them.

Recent versions of pulseaudio start on-demand in general (and will re-
autospawn if it crashes).

There's also a legacy-ish autostart item:
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop

-- Rex

[JD]

On 07/07/2015 07:30 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> jd1008 wrote:
> > I looked in /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd, recursively,
> > and none of the services or dependencies have the string
> > pulseaudio in them.
>
> Recent versions of pulseaudio start on-demand in general (and will re-
> autospawn if it crashes).
>
> There's also a legacy-ish autostart item:
> /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop
>
> -- Rex

What makes use of /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop?