On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 10:02 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > 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 Thanks, both have been applied to the "next" branch. Did you try building pulseaudio with these patches? Removing start-pulseaudio-kde.in broke the build for me, because there were still traces of it in the build system. I have now removed all references to it in a separate commit. -- Tanu