Hi, So while at linux plumbers attending the systemd hackfest, I thought a good use of the hacking time I had available would be to allow PulseAudio to be activated via systemd's socket activation system. The changes needed are actually quite minimal, and by doing this we can disable quite a lot of code in PulseAudio related to autospawning (which does still seem to cause some problems for some users) and we also get a few handy side effects too. It becomes much easier, as a developer, to stop the system PulseAudio and run your own test instance i.e. you do not have to disable autospawning before killing the system PA - you just run: systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket pulseaudio.service and then run your test version. A second advantage is that there is a relatively simple and documented way to run e.g. mpd as a normal user before you login via the systemd user lingering feature. I've written a few docs about all this here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Running/ (NB I've assumed v6 for landing this but that could be updated as needed) All the best! Col
