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Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?'

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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.

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audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?' Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2021-05-17 09:40 +0200
  Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?' didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 10:20 +0200
    Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?' Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2021-05-17 13:50 +0200
      Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?' Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-17 14:20 +0200
        Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?' Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 14:40 +0200
      Re: audacity on Buster - qui est 'input?' didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 15:00 +0200

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