User:Rdieter/PulseAudioKDE

NOTE: This is all implemented for you already, if you install  pkg.

If you want to test out  Fedora 8  +   PulseAudio  + KDE, here's what to do.

HISTORY 0.1 Init 0.2 switch pulseaudio start from xdg/autostart to X11/xinitd.d 0.3 mention using /etc/kde/env or ~/.kde/env for pa startup too 0.4 X11/xinit.d -> X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ 0.5 implemented via kde-settings-pulseaudio pkg


 * Prereq pkgs

This should make pulseaudio intercept all calls from alsa-using apps (including kde's arts). See also


 * autostart pulseaudio on session start

Drop into one of several possible locations:
 * /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ (for all X sessions)
 * /etc/kde/env/ (all users, kde only)
 * ~/.kde/env (single user, kde only)

Hopefully, we can get this (or something like it) accepted as the de-facto method of getting pulseaudio started for desktop sessions.


 * (optional) make pulseaudio-module-xsmp start after kde session manager is started/ready:

Modify /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-module-xsmp.desktop to include: X-KDE-autostart-phase=2 NOTE: this still doesn't seem to work right, this module doesn't seem to get loaded for me.