On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. since i recently blew up my computer "accidentally on purpose"[1]... i decided to try this since i said i would and so many others to had success. works perfectly under a fresh install, e17 desktop; nice w3rk! i'm liking it quite a bit... sharing/sending sound to other machines is a pretty neat trick; maybe i can set it up under my local headless KVM server and send music/etc to my or my fiancé's laptops... or both... cool. C Anthony [1] me==smart. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg07193.html