'Twas brillig, and Zhang, Vivian at 05/02/10 01:45 did gyre and gimble: > Yeah, there is no session manager running in my X session. > Thanks for your quick reply, it helps a lot. No worries. I should have mentioned in my first reply that you can disable the exit after idle timeout logic if you don't like it by editing the daemon.conf (in /etc/pulse or ~/.pulse) and setting the exit-idle-time to 0 (IIRC - it may need to be -1 but I think it's 0). Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]