On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:45:34AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I can take a hint. It seems to me I have to place the statement > > pulseaudio --daemonize > > in some user file or other but nowhere can I find in that doc (coulda missed > it; I'm an old guy) a suggestion as to what file to use. I'm thinking what's > wrong with just putting that into my .xsession file?
I assumed this at first, too. It seems right, doesn't it? Sure. But it doesn't work. Pulseaudio is supposed to start *itself* automatically upon demand. It's supposed to "just work", and you're not supposed to have to do anything to make it work. When I tried putting a pulseaudio start-up command in my .xsession file, I had problems. Every single time -- and I mean 100% of the time, literally *every* single time -- that I started an X session, I was left with a nonresponsive pulseaudio daemon. But if I stopped and restarted the pulseaudio daemon, then it would work fine. So, every time I started X, I had to manually stop pulseaudio, and then manually restart it. Eventually I figured out that the solution was *not* to start pulseaudio myself. Just let it autostart itself on demand. For some reason, this works, but starting it myself does not work. I have no idea why. But there you go. That's the answer, apparently.
