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PulseAudio instantly respawns from this if you have autospawn set to yes (and most distributions do, and it takes some effort to get it working without that).
by cookiecaper 14y ago
PulseAudio instantly respawns from this if you have autospawn set to yes (and most distributions do, and it takes some effort to get it working without that).
Typically when I want a quick-and-dirty "kill PulseAudio for real" solution I move /usr/bin/pulseaudio to /usr/bin/pulse-dead, issue pkill pulseaudio, and proceed until I want PA to come back to life, at which time I mv the binary back.
- Hello71 14y agopasuspender
- cookiecaper 14y agoThat only works as long as the command it wraps is living. I could use that approach, but typically I don't just want pulseaudio dead while gedit or something is running, I want it dead until I decide that I want it back. It usually happens this way when I'm debugging an audio issue, so it'd be annoying to have PA constantly cycling that way.