GNU bug report logs - #40544
Pulseaudio is not looking for user configuration

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Message #20 received at 40544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>
Cc: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>, 40544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40544: Pulseaudio is not looking for user configuration
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:00:37 +0200

Hi Diego,

Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de> skribis:

> pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com> 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’.

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