On Wed, 02.09.09 00:32, Malte Gell (malte.gell at gmx.de) wrote: > Hi there, > > I just discovered this little wrapper script start-pulseaudio-x11. What is the > exact purpose of this script? Should it be used to start Pulse when using X? > > So far I have issued a simple "pulseaudio --high-priority --realtime --start" > command. Should this wrapper script be used instead? It is recommended to run PA via the XDG autostart file /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop which calls start-pulseaudio-x11. That script starts PA via pulseaudio --start and then loads a cuple of X11 related modules into it. The idea is that this way a single PA instance can be shared among multiple parallel logins of the same user, so that they share most modules but will get a seperate set of X11 modules for each session (and hence each $DISPLAY) you are arctive in. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
