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bug#40544: Pulseaudio is not looking for user configuration
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#40544: Pulseaudio is not looking for user configuration |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:00:37 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Diego,
Diego Nicola Barbato <address@hidden> skribis:
> pkill9 <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Pulseaudio doesn't read my user configuration files according to strace.
>>
>> Attached is the output of `strace -o /tmp/log.log pulseaudio` - It only
>> looks for /etc/pulse/daemon.conf.
>
> That's a known [0] (but AFAIK undocumented) side effect of the
> PulseAudio service, which was added to %desktop-services in January [1].
> If you want PulseAudio to read your user configuration files you'll have
> to remove that service from your system services or unset PULSE_CONFIG
> and PULSE_CLIENT_CONFIG in ~/.profile [2].
It would be good to document that, right below
‘pulseaudio-service-type’. Would you like to give it a try, Diego?
Or alternately, is there a way we can arrange so that the user’s config
takes precedence over /etc/pulse?
Thanks,
Ludo’.