On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:13:51 +0000, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:32:03 +0000, I wrote: > >>> Sometime in the last month or two a regular upgrade of my Wheezy >>> systems caused them to start running /usr/bin/pulseaudio. > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:58:39 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón replied: > >> Yes, it is a requirement at least for the "gnome-core" metapackage. For >> others DE I can't tell. > > I don't use gnome but do have it all installed.
There you have it. But if you are not login into a GNOME session, I think PA should not be started by default. >>> And what's in these .pulse-cookie files? I'm leery of anything with >>> "cookie" in its name. > >> Hum... "man 5 pulse-client.conf" says: >> >> *** >> cookie-file= Specify the path to the PulseAudio authentication cookie. >> Defaults to ~/.pulse-cookie. >> *** > > That's reassuring. I guess I'll leave everything as it stands. Thanks. My wild guess is that, being PA a network sound server, it has to have a way for managing different user settings, similar in the way a web server does, and that's the reason for the cookies: to keep a track of client's tasks for the audio stack. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.12.03.12.35...@gmail.com
