[LAU] Ubuntu Studio 14.04 Pulse removal question

[Len Ovens]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Kaza Kore wrote:

> As far as I know and can tell -k stands for Kill. if you run it twice it
> informs you PA is not running!

Yes but pulse is configured respawn by default, it does take some time to 
restart, but does so as soon as you kill it.
> 
> As I stated I had unchecked the all Pulse related options in the Autostart
> settings and it still starts on reboot!

That could be... all it takes is something asking via D-bus if pulse is 
there... and then it is.

My personal solution has been to unload module-jackdbus-detect when I do 
not want pulse connected to jack. pulse takes almost no cpu that way. The 
command to unload the module is:

pactl unload-module module-jackdbus-detect

The package pulseaudio-module-jack can be removed to make this more 
permanent, but if you will not use pulse maybe just:

sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/pulseaudio

There may be depends problems if you remove the pulseaudio package 
itself... for example you browser may be removed as well. Debian depends 
are there to protect dummys.

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net