Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 15:58:09 +0200 From: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What the hell starts pulseaudio?! Message-ID: <CAM8r67AHsYYCuu8_tAiX5a4KtbtkRaU4H4OotCjB4A6j%2BOPbMg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAM8r67BZPJiWtxY75DRw9R1pZgOgE1PvYQ_g6_BgEtHmWCandg@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b18f5de-7aae-a226-88cd-a210507d5c5@gmail.com> <CAM8r67CB5wye72e_FCVx8QaxyW1U=9eFSP4tJopSVYnaEwW2LQ@mail.gmail.com> <72194e9f-261c-c3da-996-f8e1bcad2164@gmail.com> <CAM8r67BZPJiWtxY75DRw9R1pZgOgE1PvYQ_g6_BgEtHmWCandg@mail.gmail.com>
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Another, user level, trick to prevent applications spawning PulseAudio is ~/.config/pulse/client.conf: autospawn = no On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 3:53 PM Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 1:42 PM Roderick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > > > What Window Manager do you use? Maybe this guy.. or its audio mixer? :-) > > It is written in my original mail. > > Sorry, TWM does not start it, its the Firefox, or any other > application linked against libpulse* will spawn local user service > with stream/dgram socket communication (not TCP!) :-) > > sockstat | grep pulse > XXX pulseaudio 99706 5 stream /home/XXX/.xdg/pulse/native > XXX pulseaudio 99706 8 stream -> /tmp/dbus-URrI0C27hY > XXX pulseaudio 99706 9 stream /home/XXX/.xdg/pulse/native > XXX pulseaudio 99706 11 dgram -> /var/run/log > XXX pulseaudio 99706 41 stream -> /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket > XXX enlightenm 98712 73 stream -> /home/XXX/.xdg/pulse/native > > At first I though htop and ps auxd could show process tree with > parent, but in my case there was no parent, what seems reasonable > because it should work even after its spawning process terminates. > > Then I found this. Looks like exactly your question and the answer: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204522/how-does-pulseaudio-start > > Personally I like PulseAudio. It gives you lots of felxibility and > control over audio per application on the fly. > > If you do not like it you may want to try remove / lock the package > and/or put a link to /use/bin/true in place of the binary? > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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