> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:36:39 -0700
> From: len@ovenwerks.net
> To: dj_kaza@hotmail.com
> CC: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
> Subject: Re: [LAU] Ubuntu Studio 14.04 Pulse removal question
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Kaza Kore wrote:
>
> > **These steps didn't seem to make as much difference as I thought they
> > should do! Even though I thought I had stopped PA from running the
> > pulse/jack sync still showed up in jack's connections and running
> > "pulseaudio -k" still killed it, giving me the extra overhead in jack. This
> > is why I added the command to the jack startup option. Surely these options
> > should have stopped it from running in the first place, no??
>
> pulseaudio -k should restart pulseaudio. Try: settings manager->session
> and startup->Application Autostart->uncheck pulseaudio. Then logout and
> back in.
>
> --
> Len Ovens
> www.ovenwerks.net
>

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

As I stated I had unchecked the all Pulse related options in the Autostart settings and it still starts on reboot!

Dale.