From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: How to temporarily disable Pulseaudio? Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:20:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87sggyl7xv.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87sggzmtsz.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87blnnh49i.fsf@devup.no> <87imhvmou2.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36320 helo=eggs1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQUTx-000765-Pu for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:20:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs1p.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQUTw-0005r1-La for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:20:57 -0400 Received: from sender4-of-o53.zoho.com ([136.143.188.53]:21374) by eggs1p.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQUTw-0005jb-0e for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:20:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87imhvmou2.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> You could try to build the application you want to test without >> Pulseaudio support, and run it after killing the pulseaudio daemon. > > But how do you kill the pulseaudio daemon? It gets restarted instantly. The documentation suggests to disable autospawn and to then kill the daemon process: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Running/ -- Ricardo