Re: how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

[Tomasz Torcz <tomek crocom com pl>]

Dnia 18-12-2007, wto o godzinie 00:48 +0100, Lennart Poettering pisze:
> You can configure PA so that it is autospawned when needed. However, I
> do not recommend this. I recommend to start it from the session
> manager like we do it right now for KDE and GNOME. Why? Because PA
> nowadays does much more than just proxying access to the hw. It reacts
> on hotplug events, network configuration changes, certain X11 events,
> it is a network server, and so on and so on. For all these reasons it
> is better to leave PA running all the time.

  If PA is so important, why not start it system-wide by default?

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Tomasz Torcz