On 12/28/2010 10:36 PM, Peter Hercek wrote: >> If so, then things are all working as expected (albeit with the >> module-loopback not preventing an idle timeout of the daemon which >> should likely be addressed somehow - likely a relatively simple patch to >> module-loopback.c). > I'm cool with any way which allows me to prevent the server exit when > it is used by module-loopback only. It may be done by module-loopback > actually telling the server it is being used or it can be done by some > switch/option/argument to module-loopback (looks like it is possible > to have them so I do not know how to specify it now) or a switch to > server or loading some module do-not-exit-on-idle or whatever :-) I do > not really care, it just sucks big time when I need to have some other > (visible) app using pulseaudio server to keep it running when I need > only module-loopback active. Actually the solution for me should be setting exit-idle-time = -1 This seems to work. I still think that module-loopback use should prevent the server from exit even when exit-idle-time is a small postive number. Thanks, Peter.