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default.pa - PulseAudio Sound Server Startup Script

~/.config/pulse/default.pa

/etc/pulse/default.pa

/etc/pulse/system.pa

The PulseAudio sound server interprets a configuration script on startup, which is mainly used to define the set of modules to load. When PulseAudio runs in the per-user mode and ~/.config/pulse/default.pa exists, that file is used. When PulseAudio runs in the per-user mode and that file doesn't exist, /etc/pulse/default.pa is used. When PulseAudio runs as a system service, /etc/pulse/system.pa is used.

The script should contain directives in the PulseAudio CLI language, as documented in pulse-cli-syntax(5).

The PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; PulseAudio is available from http://pulseaudio.org/

pulse-cli-syntax(5), pulse-daemon.conf(5), pulseaudio(1), pacmd(1)

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