I found this article: http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/172-Wednesday-Why-How-does-Pulseaudio-start.html but it appears that it no longer applies. $ ps -ef | grep pulse steve 30603 1 0 10:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog so either pulseaudio was started by init or whatever started it has since died. Anyway it is not started by gnome-session. $ ps -ef | grep gnome-session steve 30486 17079 0 10:07 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session I can't find any reference to pulseaudio in any init file # grep pulse /etc/*init* # So where does it get started? Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines