Colin Guthrie wrote: > Pulse will start via two ways normally: > > 1. It will autospawn itself when the user runs an app that wants to use > pulse and will die after a period of inactivity. > 2. It will be started at X11 login via an XDG compliant .desktop file > and remain for the duration of the X11 session. This is how I thought it should work. Thanks for the confirmation. I had tried this, but pulse never started. I will try again, this time paying attention to the permissions. > > Depending on the use case for the project your working on, you can do > one of two things: > > 1. Just use the autospawn system if the user playing audio is local to > your machine. > 2. Create a system service script that runs pulseaudio at boot and > keeps it there (e.g. disable the automatically dying part!) dropping > privs first to your user so that root is not involved. (su -c > "pulseaudio" or similar). I'm doing this now, however, I'm running in system mode. I will try and drop from root to pulseaudio user without system mode and see how that goes. Thanks Col! Jim
