[LAU] PulseAudio on top of Jack

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Apr 14 05:31:34 UTC 2014


On 04/13/2014 11:53 AM, Ede Wolf wrote:
>
>> And KDE.
>
> I am happily running KDE (and xfce on another machine) without
> pulseaudio even installed on any system. Neither any gstreamer stuff
> (not true for xfce, unfortunately) at all. Happy with alsa, jack and KDE
> - and I have not been missing anything the last years. So, as usual,
> bloat is likely to be a more distribution specific issue, with package
> maintainers having to try to please anyone and therefore enable each and
> every option instead of having a clear line or focus.

Did you install KDE yourself, or was it part of the distro you used?

I use XFCE, it has no dependencies on Pulse.

I have Pulse on one XFCE, IIRC, it was something some Gnome app depended on.

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