Where is pulseaudio started?

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:39 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On 08/26/09 13:03, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> >> stan wrote:
> >>> If you are using the default Fedora setup, you have your own version of
> >>> pulse started when you log in.  I notice that it also can be started by
> >>> programs that need its services, and that seems to be gconf-helper.
> >> Isn't "autospawn" activated by default in /etc/pulse/client.conf?
> >> That means you can have pulseaudio started by who knows what.
> > 
> > I don't think so.  On my system (Fedora-11 vanilla) autospawn is
> > commented out.
> > 
> > jon
> > 
> > 
> 
> Ok. Why do you think it's commented out?
> 
> I'm looking at my copy and the comments in the top of the file begin with a
> #sign but the config lines begin with a semi;colon. So right now I have no
> idea what's a comment and what's required syntax.
> 
> Can pulseaudio be simply shut OFF? This thing really stinks.

A comment near the top of /etc/pulse/client.conf reads:

## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See pulse-client.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values a commented out.  Use either ; or # for
## commenting.

I too am interested in not having pulseaudio start at login time, which
is why I'm following this thread.

jon



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