On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 13:16 +0100, Peter Meerwald wrote: > this patch adds documentation for the following envirnoment variables used > by PulseAudio: > > PULSE_COOKIE > PULSE_PROP_... > PULSE_PROP_OVERRIDE_... > PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH > PULSE_STATE_PATH > PULSE_CONFIG_PATH > PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC > PULSE_NO_SIMD > VALGRIND Great, many thanks! > the list is probably not complete; some env. vars. should probably not be > documented (?) but rather be dropped Which ones you think should maybe be dropped? > there is currently no section in pulseaudio.1 documenting env. vars. relating > to the daemon, only client-side env. vars. are described -- this might not be > the best place to put this information The manual page is for the daemon executable, so I think the server-side variables belong there. There needs to be just some separator (sub-heading)? between the client-side and server-side variables. > which env. var. relate to > daemon? PULSE_STATE_PATH PULSE_NO_SIMD > client? PULSE_SERVER PULSE_SINK PULSE_SOURCE PULSE_BINARY PULSE_CLIENTCONFIG PULSE_COOKIE PULSE_PROP_... PULSE_PROP_OVERRIDE PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC > both? PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH PULSE_CONFIG_PATH (the man page says that this is only for the client configuration - that's incorrect) VALGRIND (I think this is mainly interesting for the server side, but I think there's code that uses this and is used at both sides) -- Tanu
