Tanu, This isn't directly releated to this thread, but something that David mentioned here worries me vis a vis our ongoing discssions about "which server are we talking to?": David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> [2014-09-08 13:32:45 +0200]: > > Usually, PA will use the PULSE_SERVER X11 property instead of using > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, so this environment variable does not matter. > This X11 PULSE_SERVER property hasn't been mentined before in our discussions on the Travis Bickle question. It seems to add a new wrinkle. How does this property fit in to the big picture of server determination? From what David said above, it sounds like the PULSE_SERVER property has priority over the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR envar...(????) Also: In an earlier post you obliquely referred to envar PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH: > > # ...but setting PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH achieves pretty much the same thing. > That envar isn't mentioned in the ENVIRONMENT section of pulseaudio.1 at all. >From it's name I can of course guess its semantics, but the point is... Wow, this is getting awfully complicated!! Is there a whitepaper or anything of that sort which lays out all the determining factors behind server association?
