Burkhard Stubert <burkhard.stubert at googlemail.com> writes: > Hi, > > I would like to disable the pulseaudio daemon temporarily. PA runs per user > session. How do I do this? You are not very specific about what you want to do, but perhaps pasuspender is what you are looking for? Run "pasuspender otherprogram" to run otherprogram with pulseaudio temporarily disabled (no longer using the audio devices). When it finished, pulsaudio will be enabled again. -- David K?gedal