Where is pulseaudio started?

Mark Knoop mark at opus11.net
Fri Aug 28 09:10:47 UTC 2009


At 14:49 on 27 Aug 2009, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:39 +0930
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:12 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> > > I'd like to know where (which file) the information is
> > > stored in and what program starts it. gdm? gnome? gconf?
> > 
> > A hint for finding out things like that:  Change a setting, and
> > search for a very recently changed file.
> > 
> Interesting. 
> I had already found a directory called ~/.config/autostart but
> there was no hint of anything pulseaudio related in there. Then I
> followed your suggestion and disabled its autostart and searched for
> recently changed files. Now there is a file called
> ~/.config/pulseaudio.desktop. That is backward to what I would have
> expected and if I enable pulseaudio again, the file is removed.

Come on, it's not exactly rocket-science. Perhaps you could start by
reading what you've posted:

> The pulseaudio.desktop file contains this:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
<snip>
> X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

Look also in /etc/xdg/autostart/ and at
http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html

-- 
Mark Knoop




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