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Pulseaudio Not Remembering Default Sound Device?

The solution is simple! Look to this thread:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=948028&postcount=5

It’s as simple as shutting down and restarting the Pulse daemon as soon as you’ve got everything set up the way you like it. Otherwise, when you log off or shut down, the daemon is killed before it can save its settings, reloading the defaults on the next boot.

Pulseaudio daemon won’t save it’s settings to ~/.pulse if just killed when exiting your login session. It will only save if you kill the daemon with pulseaudio -k command. So I had to add a 1-line script (/usr/bin/pulseaudio -k) to /etc/kde/shutdown directory. Now it works.

sloik2004 Lab Notes

  1. i don’t care
    June 6th, 2008 at 15:45 | #1

    Over my head!

  2. Hayden DA GREAT
    June 7th, 2008 at 22:21 | #2

    That’s because you use windows! And every aspect of how your computer works is controlled by microsoft. Ubuntu just takes up space remember? Also, you’re evidently stupid.

  3. i don’t care
    June 8th, 2008 at 15:37 | #3

    That is a hurtful thing to say to an old friend, Hayden. Oh, and I do use Ubuntu now. Have been using it since January after I got a compy with Vista on it and I started looking into Linux. The things that you can do with Compiz Fusion blow Aero out of the water. Even when spinning the cube, Ubuntu uses less memory than Vista when it is just sitting there! Not to mention the general stability of it. The only time I had it crash was after I installed an unstable Compiz plug-in.
    Of course, you could be thinking that this is being written by those “friends” of yours whom you lent your Ubuntu CD to. It is not.

  4. Hayden McAfee
    June 8th, 2008 at 16:14 | #4

    FYI, “Hayden DA GREAT” is not Hayden McAfee.

  5. i don’t care
    June 8th, 2008 at 16:32 | #5

    Hm… seems I have made an error in judgement! Hello Hayden McAfee. Long time, no see, eh?

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