[pulseaudio-discuss] Problems starting without X11 (git master)

[Arun Raghavan]

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 12:23 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
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> I don't have any recollection of such discussion. If the session bus

Must've confused it with something else, then.

> starts after PA, then you'll lose the ability to use the the dbus server
> discovery API (this makes it hard to use the dbus protocol), and the
> ability to track the server existence on the session bus. For the
> former, the solution is to remove the server discovery service from the
> pulseaudio daemon, and make it a library and maybe also a small
> standalone dbus service (and possibly also a binary that can be called
> directly). For the latter, I'm not sure it's a huge problem that the
> server isn't visible in the session bus in the rare(?) cases where the
> session bus is launched after pulseaudio. I don't even know what is the
> point of the server tracking in the session bus, but I know that
> libpulse uses it for something. I believe that that something isn't
> terribly important.

I agree, which is why I pushed this out. Just wanted to see if there was
some easy way to deal with the ramifications of someone starting PA in a
console and then firing up X to get a session bus, etc.

-- Arun