[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio on Slackware 14.1

[terry]

Thanks for the reply and the information.  I resolved the problem(s).
(There were a number of dependencies to resolve.)


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 06.08.2014 03:34, terry wrote:
>
>>     /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio start
>>
>
> This init script is for system-wide PulseAudio instance. This is not a
> recommended way to start it, see http://www.freedesktop.org/
> wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide/
>
> So, you just have to ignore the init script. Or even erase it so that it
> doesn't hurt your eyes.
>
> The proper way to start PulseAudio is from a user session. The correct
> command is: pulseaudio --start
>
> PulseAudio already contains a desktop file that is used by all non-broken
> desktop environments to auto-start it on login. See
> /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop , so even the "pulseaudio --start"
> command is not actually needed to be issued.
>
> --
> Alexander E. Patrakov
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