JaM wrote: > Do you have pulseaudio starting on a per user basis or as a service? > What are the benefits/disadvantages of each? Per user. It's the recommended way as it allows things like user switching to work as expected (e.g. when I login as a second user, the first user's sound is effectively muted). This is all handled thanks to consolekit. Also with a system daemon you have added user management overheads (users have to be in a certain group to access the daemon etc.) Col