[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#845090: Bug#845090: /usr/bin/alsamixer: alsamixer -c0 starts pulseaudio

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Juha Jäykkä <juhaj at iki.fi> [2016-11-26 19:09 +0000]:

[...]
> I think pulseaudio gets started by libasound.so.2 when it parses alsa.conf.d 
> because pulseaudio has placed the above file there.

If pulsaudion is installed it runs as a per user session by default.
To prevent starting pulse just

$ echo "autospawn=no" >> $HOME/.pulse/client.conf.

You can now kill the pulseaudio process with out restarting it
again. See alsa /usr/share/doc/pulseaudio/README.Debian.

To make this as a default I have this in my shell login script
(i.e .zlogin)
echo " Shutdown pulseaudio"
     if [ -x /usr/bin/pulseaudio ]; then
        if [ "$(pulseaudio --check 2>/dev/null)" = 0 ]; then
           pulseaudio -k
        else
           echo " No pulsedaemon found"
        fi
     fi

Elimar
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