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