[pulseaudio-discuss] Setting Pulseaudio Parameter permanently

[David Henningsson]

On 01/15/2014 10:43 AM, Axel Braun wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Having skype 4.2 installed on openSUSE 13.1x64 / KDE 4.11, it starts with some noise as soon as you type a message.
> 
> This can be avoided by starting skype from the command line, and first setting a parameter:
> export PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60
> skype &
> 
> This is honestly not too fancy, and creating a separate script startscript for it neither. Instead I would like to add the export permanently to ... where?
> 
> ~/.bashrc for interactive shell?
> ~/.profile for login shell per user?
> or in /etc/profile.d/pulseaudio.sh ?
> 
> Thanks!

Doing it on a user- or system- wide level is not advisable.
Thisparameter should take effect only for skype. IIRC, in Ubuntu, we set
it in the .desktop file.

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