On 09.09.2013 11:20, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On 9 Sep 2013 17:17, "Dennis Lange" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 08.09.2013 21:36, Guus Snijders wrote: >> >>> Notice that the consequent updates may overwrite that file and thus undo >>> your change... >> >> Ok for this and the unneeded pactl usage it is better to change the >> permission of the whole file: >> >> chmod -x /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 >> >> Thanks for your notice. > Same problem. If the file gets overridden it would still be executable. I have no idea what pacman and the pulseaudio package will do in this situation, but a normal cp will not change the permission.