[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #135: X11 connection is always opened

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#135: X11 connection is always opened
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 Reporter:  timn      |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:         
Component:  libpulse  |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:            |  
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 I installed PulseAudio on an old, small, fan-less x86 box that is close to
 the hi-fi system. On my home server I have a mpd installed that uses this
 audio sink box.

 Now it always tries to open up a X11 connection as client. If I'm logged
 in such that the original display is available it will fail to play music
 just printing "X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or
 server shutdown)." or similar (DISPLAY variable may change) on the screen.
 Not that there is no local X installed on the box running the media
 player.

 If I log out I can play music and get "E: client-conf-x11.c:
 XOpenDisplay() failed" in the log file. It seems that the client always
 tries to open an X11 connection, which is obviously not the right thing to
 do. At least there should be a configuration parameter in client.conf to
 turn this off. Also it should not abort at that point if it cannot open
 the X connection, but it should just try to play.

 Doing an "unset DISPLAY" in the startup script just before mpd is started
 is a workaround.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/135>
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