Here are a couple of patches we currently ship in fedora 20 to improve and simplify pulseaudio daemon autostart on kde. 0001: consolidate daemon startup by using a single/common startup method (instead of 2) 0002: ensure pulseaudio early startup on kde using X-KDE-autostart-phase=1 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0001-consolidate-daemon-startup.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 3579 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140122/85ed2668/attachment.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0002-X-KDE-autostart-phase-1.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 641 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140122/85ed2668/attachment-0001.bin>