This --start is patched out in several downstreams to allow users to easily disable PA by simply disabling autospawn. If autospawn is enabled, then the first pactl command will start it and if not it will fail and the script will exit. When switching to systemd socket activation, we very much do not want to start PA manually here. We could replace it with a systemctl --user start pulseaudio but really it just makes sense to rely on the socket activation as this should apply equally to non-systemd setups which use PA's own autospawn. --- src/daemon/start-pulseaudio-x11.in | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/daemon/start-pulseaudio-x11.in b/src/daemon/start-pulseaudio-x11.in index 620e50f..63ed740 100755 --- a/src/daemon/start-pulseaudio-x11.in +++ b/src/daemon/start-pulseaudio-x11.in @@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ set -e - at PA_BINARY@ --start "$@" - if [ x"$DISPLAY" != x ] ; then @PACTL_BINARY@ load-module module-x11-publish "display=$DISPLAY" > /dev/null -- 2.1.3