On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Sander Jansen <s.jansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if pulseaudio is installed, I believe you > should be able to prevent it from starting by removing the dbus > activation files: > > etc/xdg/ > etc/xdg/autostart/ > etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop > etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop > > (unless pulse has some other way of auto-starting the daemon) You will also need to uncomment and deactivate the autospawn option in /etc/pulse/client.conf.