Where is pulseaudio started?

[William Case]

Hi;

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 14:49 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:39 +0930
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 
> The pulseaudio.desktop file contains this:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=PulseAudio Sound System
> Comment=Start the PulseAudio Sound System
> Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Categories=
> GenericName=
> Name[en_US]=PulseAudio Sound System
> Comment[en_US]=Start the PulseAudio Sound System
> X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
> 
> /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 is a script:
> <comments snipped>
> set -e
> 
> # Exit without running pulseaudio daemon if this is a remote desktop
> session [ -n "$PULSE_SERVER" ] && exit 0
> 
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start "$@"
> 
> if [ x"$DISPLAY" != x ] ; then
> 
>     /usr/bin/pactl load-module module-x11-publish "display=$DISPLAY"
>     > /dev/null
> 
>     if [ x"$SESSION_MANAGER" != x ] ; then
> 	/usr/bin/pactl load-module module-x11-xsmp "display=$DISPLAY
>     session_manager=$SESSION_MANAGER" > /dev/null fi
> fi
> 
> So my remaining questions are what reads the pulseaudio.desktop file
> and how does pulseaudio get started if it does not exist.
> 
> Steve
> 

I have been following this thread with a great deal of interest.  When
you finally get it figured out would you please be sure to let us all
know.


-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1