[yocto] Starting Pulseaudio automatically

[Christopher Larson]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:06 PM Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:

> I’ve got an X11 application which uses Pulseaudio. Everything works as
> expected when built under “daisy” (Pulseaudio 5), but the same system built
> under “jethro” (Pulseaudio 6) fails as Pulseaudio doesn’t start
> automatically.
>
> It looks like this is down to a difference in start-pulseaudio-x11. The
> following is present in “daisy”:
>
>    pulseaudio --start
>
> but this isn’t there in “jethro”. Adding this line makes Pulseaudio start
> as expected, allowing the application to run.
>
> Why was this removed in Pulseaudio 6? Is it supposed to be started another
> way?
>

Pulseaudio will autostart when the apps use it, on demand, nowadays. There
should be no need to start it in a startup script, afaik.
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