You should not. You may run 1 PulseAudio deamon, all users connect to it. Here is my configuration: default.pa: {{{ load-module module-native-protocol-unix socket=/tmp/pulse-socket auth-group=pulseaudio }}} client.conf: {{{ default-server = unix:/tmp/pulse-socket }}} daemon.conf: {{{ exit-idle-time = -1 }}} On 24.05.12 05:11, Stefan Monnier wrote: > IIUC running a system-wide pulseaudio is the wrong thing to do. > So I should run a PA daemon for each user.