From a33a10102f555454d9025b0693edf8d539f6a7af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Nicola Barbato Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:32:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention that PulseAudio service overrides user configuration. * doc/guix.texi (Sound Services): Add a warning that 'pulseaudio-service-type' overrides per-user configuration files in '~/.config/pulse'. --- doc/guix.texi | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 19094c4b70..683c40b476 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019 Florian Pelz@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura Lazzati@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Alex Vong@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Josh Holland@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Diego Nicola Barbato@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2019, 2020 Diego Nicola Barbato@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Ivan Petkov@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Jakob L. Kreuze@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Kyle Andrews@* @@ -16288,6 +16288,13 @@ This is the type for the @uref{https://www.pulseaudio.org/, PulseAudio} sound server. It exists to allow system overrides of the default settings via @code{pulseaudio-configuration}, see below. +@quotation Warning +This service overrides per-user configuration files. If you want +PulseAudio to honor configuraton files in @file{~/.config/pulse} you +have to unset the environment variables @code{PULSE_CONFIG} and +@code{PULSE_CLIENTCONFIG} in your @file{~/.bash_profile}. +@end quotation + @quotation Warning This service on its own does not ensure, that the @code{pulseaudio} package exists on your machine. It merely adds configuration files for it, as -- 2.26.0